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Elon Musk wants to take his train to Chicago.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur tweeted Wednesday that his Boring Company would compete to design, fund, build and operate a high-speed loop connecting O'Hare Airport with downtown Chicago.
Musk's statement came after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked for proposals to build and operate a high-speed rail line that will whisk passengers from the airport to downtown in 20 minutes or fewer, cutting travel times in half. Contractors will also have to figure out how to finance it without taxpayer dollars, Emanuel said.
The L already connects O'Hare and Midway airports to downtown Chicago.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:14AM (1 child)
but not to each other, that could run up and down Cicero Ave. That would also be very convenient. It would also be nice if they had an express track to downtown, like the Red Line has to Howard. It would be far cheaper than a brand new tunnel, and it could be finished in about 2 - 5 years, as opposed to 10 - 20 years for Musk's shit.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:40PM
Why would you connect Midway to O'Hare?
Connections between spokes in the transit system would make sense if you were trying to develop suburban hubs like in Orland Park or Schaumburg or something, but does that makes sense for the expense? People in Chicago land commute to work in the Loop, and immediately run back to their suburbs at the end of the day where they have all their services. In the evening the Loop is a ghost town, and there's no reason for an Orland Park resident to go to Schaumburg to dine at Chipotle because they have one in Orland Park.
Washington DC delenda est.