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posted by martyb on Friday December 01 2017, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the underground-economy dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:50PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:50PM (#604263) Journal

    The downtown hub is not chaos 24/7. After 6pm downtown is a ghost town. During the day it's like any other transit system: busy during rush hour and fine other times. The Loop has many stops that are blocks apart so there are no bottlenecks.

    You have put your finger on a limitation of the current transit system as it relates to the airport. It is only convenient to business travel. Nobody lives downtown. At best they live in Wicker Park or Ravenswood, but if your neighborhood is not on the blue line you have to ride all the way in to downtown to veer off in the direction all the way to the airport. That sucks and you'll take a taxi instead.

    Your diagonal makes sense for that reason, but would people take it any other time if they weren't going to the airport? And even if they had a line like that would they take it to the airport lugging suitcases unless they were traveling on a shoestring?

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