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  The proposed route that will be studied from Pueblo to Cheyenne, possibly stopping as far west as Vail.

Hyperloop One, a startup that's working on towers high-speed, low-pressure, tube-based rail transportation, spoken Thursday morning that it had chosen 10 routes virtually the world that it will study as potential locations for a Hyperloop. The startup solicited route ideas when in May as part of what it tabbed the "Hyperloop One Global Challenge."

One route, however, was chosen for a headliner feasibility study that will be conducted with Colorado's Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Aecom, a multinational engineering firm: Pueblo-Denver-Cheyenne. Hyperloop One says that route would span 360 miles and be wieldy to well-nigh 4.8 million people. (This reporter lives in Denver and has been stuck in unbearable I-25 traffic that she would love to see an volitional for that street up the Front Range, no matter how far-fetched.)

The project is noteworthy in that it has the support of the state's transportation agency. But conducting a feasibility study and unquestionably towers a Hyperloop are two variegated things. As California's high-speed rail plan has shown, major rail infrastructure projects are prime locations for political quicksand. Hyperloop One is moreover still in the preliminary phases of making this mode of transportation a reality, too. It only recently sent a prototype pod through its test track in Nevada. The pod was propelled with an electric motor and achieved a top speed of 192mph—quite a bit slower than the 760mph that Hyperloop popularizer Elon Musk pitched when in 2013. (Hyperloop One's system moreover uses magnetic levitation instead of the air situation that Musk suggested.)