Breitbart Tech: Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has recently won a bid to construct a multi-billion dollar rapid transit system connecting O’Hare Airport to downtown Chicago.
The Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, recently announced that Elon Musk’s The Boring Company, would be constructing a multi-billion dollar rapid transit link between O’Hare Airport and downtown Chicago, the Verge reports. The Boring Company claims that their technology will be capable of transporting people from O’Hare Airport to Block 37 in downtown Chicago in just 12 minutes. Given that a journey to O’Hare Airport is usually a 40-minute trip along the city’s blue line, this is an extremely bold claim.
The Boring Company plans to achieve this short transit time using electric vehicles running through two underground tunnels, the construction of which will reportedly be funded entirely by the company with no taxpayer money invested in the construction of the new system. The current plan is for Musk’s company to cover the construction fees of the transit system up front but then keep any revenue generated from passenger transit fees and in-car shopping sales and advertisements. The project is expected to cost less than $1 billion.
In an interview with the Tribune, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said: “If you look at the history of Chicago … every time we’ve been an innovator in transportation, we have seized the future. I think figuring out — when time is money — how to shrink the distance between the economic and job engines of O’Hare and downtown positions Chicago as the global leader and global city in the United States.” more here
Haha.I love that photo of Spanky tossing cash out the window.
“Stop that kid !!”
Musk better get the money up front. Chicago is past broke.
Think Big
Lie Big
Fail Big
Nicola Tesla wants his name back.
Money Laundering?
How else could You explain it?
Chicago deserves the boring company’s big shaft.
How about a rapid transit from the southside of Chicago to the county jail?
As I recall, Boston’s Big Dig required years of moving existing utilities before a single bit of asphalt was poured. Not an easy task for a big city.
More than likely, this is just Rahm lining his pockets for a comfortable retirement somewhere other than Chicago.
Forgo the fast electric choo choo and just give every Chitcagoan a self-driving electric car with its accelerator pinned to the floor.
Tesla has been pumping them out faster than Krispy Kremes.
What? They’re not?
Are you implying from that headline that Elon Musk is a boring person and runs a boring company? Ho hum, what a bore except I smell corruption and influence peddling and money laundering. It must ne nice (NOT) to lead such a boring life like he and the corruptocrats in Shitcongo do.
this is how it works
public funding of too big to fail infrastructure projects that kick back money to those that vote for it.
that is how our congressmen get rich on their salary while in office.
then it’s on to the lobbyist gravy train after they get the boot.
we are all being taken for a ride while they sell out our great republic.
why do they hate Trump so much ?
because he is the one who exposed their greed and treason and is going to break their rice bowl
For $5 the CTA blue line will take you from O’Hare to downtown in a little less than an hour. Musk’s proposed fare would be “less than a taxi or ride share” which means that a one way ticket would probably cost $20 – $30. Yes, the CTA should probably raise its rates somewhat, but the cost differential probably isn’t going to dent the blue lines’ ridership much.
Musk also promises the trip will take 12 minutes. That’s feasible if there are no stops, but what is the demand just from Block 39 to O’Hare with no destination stops in between? Musk estimates that this project will cost $1 billion, so ridership will need to be maximized, which means multiple stops which means more time.
Musk’s philosophy seems to be “if you build it, they will come.” The Boring Company is “fronting” the construction costs, but at some point I see a huge bailout needed that Chicago can’t afford.
In related news, Boeing is planning to build the world’s largest submarine for the Madagascar Navy.
Elon, the further up you are, the better off you’ll be. Focus.
Artist renderings depict a slick futuristic glass car with its passengers casually facing the sides enjoying the view out (of a dirt tunnel?!).
And it will travel at 125MPH?!? Knock yourselves out, I would never ride it.
@Wyatt — my thoughts precisely. Who wants to go into the loop? Many of the nicest hotels are north along Michigan Ave and along the river. But you could enjoy the Loop adventure of being phone or luggage jacked by one of the creatures that come up from the underground streets. And then have to pay another $15 bucks minimum to get to where you really want to go.
I just hope they develop, soon, the technology to keep a human head alive forever, after it’s medically detached from the corpse. (Assuming that doesn’t already explain Hillary’s robohump.)
You’ve got grifter supreme Elon Musk. You’ve got grifter mecca Chicago. You’ve got a hole in the ground. And you’ve got one… beel…yon dollars. A hundred years from now I, so desperately, want Geraldo’s robohead to open “Elon’s Lost Vault.”
@bill June 15, 2018 at 10:23 am
> we are all being taken for a ride while they sell out our great republic
Don’t worry, @bill. I’m sure they’re just “repurposing” that .8 billion they just
stole“seized” from that Venezuelan dude.They continue to lead in the dead body removal Area. Sheetago has become the outhouse of America.
Redgrandma, exactly. Has anyone counted noses to see how many people go to and from downtown Chiraq to O’Hare?
A few years ago, the Mayor of Memphis wanted to build a light rail from Memphis International to Downtown. Someone took a look at the numbers and discovered that the majority of passengers coming into Memphis were changing planes for another destination. Of the ones deplaning, the majority of those were heading anyplace but downtown Memphis.
Too bad for Willie Herenton and his sweetheart land deals and construction contracts.
Maybe Elon can build flying cars instead; we’ve been promised them since the 1950’s.