Friday, June 15, 2018

Elon Musk's Chicago 'Express Loop'


The Boring Company to build Chicago O’Hare airport link - Metro Report

"The Boring Company has been selected to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a service of autonomous electric vehicles running in tunnels connecting central Chicago with O’Hare International Airport, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on June 14.
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The Craziest Thing About Elon Musk's 'Express Loop' Is the Price- CityLab

"The Boring Company, the tunneling venture Tesla CEO Elon Musk started in 2016 out of his personal frustration with surface-level gridlock, has made a significant step towards evolving beyond billionaire-passion project: The company has been selected to build and operate an 18-mile, 12-minute rapid transit connection between Chicago’s downtown Loop and O’Hare International Airport, according to news reports.

If the Boring Company’s cost projection of $1 billion is anywhere near accurate, that pencils out to $55.5 million per mile—far and away, the cheapest construction cost for any subterranean transit line in the U.S."



Elon Musk, Rahm Emanuel address skeptics of high-speed Chicago train - YouTube

Tesla will build the ‘pods’ for the Boring Company’s Loop, says Elon Musk | Electrek


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