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Source: City Hall close on $8.5 billion O'Hare expansion deal
Chicago is on the verge of striking a historic $8.5 billion deal with airline carriers at O'Hare to give the airport its largest-ever terminal expansion, adding dozens of gates and 3 million square feet to its footprint. Central to the plan to modernize and grow the airport is the construction of a new Global Terminal, which would replace Terminal 2 and serve larger aircraft for international flights, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
[...] The expansion would be complete by 2026, and the work could potentially create tens of thousands of jobs over the next eight years, the source said. It could also give O'Hare a chance to rise above its routinely dismal ranking for on-time flights.
[...] [The] mayor has said he could deliver on the long-elusive dream of a high-speed rail line between downtown and O'Hare. Four powerhouse firms, including Elon Musk's The Boring Company, have shown interest in designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining an express train.The city is hoping for a travel time of 20 minutes or less, with express trains running every 15 minutes for most of the day at fares cheaper than a taxi or Uber ride.
Also at the Chicago Tribune.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 26 2018, @11:09PM (4 children)
It's wrong to put a train in between the airport and downtown; this transport function should be reserved for taxi cabs. Just ask NYC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:49AM (1 child)
Yeah they should dig up the blue line. /sarc
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:55AM
That part perplexes me, too. Chicago actually does have a subway that takes you into O'Hare, unlike NYC. It's not terribly convenient if you're not coming from downtown, because you have to travel a long way cross town to get to the long diagonal that is the blue line. You have to ride your line all the way downtown to transfer to the blue line and then ride that spoke all the way back out, and that's the real time killer.
Chicago would do much better with another L line that connects those spokes at one or more radii out from downtown so you can travel a more direct path. A fringe benefit would be to make it more convenient to take mass transit around town for all other trips that aren't commutes into downtown from the various neighborhoods.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:14AM
well they couldn't get the hyperloop. too much water in the tunnels already, and they have to dig deep--to then go out to the suburbs since o'hare really is not in chicago.
it's an old orchard, and there are a problem with subsurface roots, too, so tunnels there are a problem too, but not nearly the same problem.
(Score: 1) by Provocateur on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:17PM
Or ask the folks at Narita. What is wrong with you people? Meesa thinks you loves your cars too much-a.