Chicago selects Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build express line from O‘Hare
In Summary : On Thursday morning, the city of Chicago announced that the Mayor's Office had chosen The Boring Company to build an expr...
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In Summary :
On Thursday morning, the city of Chicago announced that the Mayor's Office had chosen The Boring Company to build an express line between O'Hare International Airport and Block 37 in the city's downtown area, known as The Loop. The line will consist of two parallel tunnels, and it could take as little as 12 minutes to travel from point to point, according to a press release from the city.The announcement is a major step for The Boring Company, which was started in 2016 by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk founded the company in the hope of alleviating city gridlock by building more tunnels, an endeavor that has set the company's engineers toward improving tunneling techniques.
The next step will bring the company and the city together to negotiate a contract that will be presented to the Chicago City Council.
Previous city officials have tried to implement an express line between Chicago's largest airport and the downtown area but to no avail. This most recent effort was originally proposed last November, when the city opened up a "Request for Qualifications"—the first formal step in vetting companies eligible to submit proposals. Two companies, including The Boring Company, advanced past the second "Request for Proposals" stage in March. [...]
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1331441
On Thursday morning, the city of Chicago announced that the Mayor's Office had chosen The Boring Company to build an express line between O'Hare International Airport and Block 37 in the city's downtown area, known as The Loop. The line will consist of two parallel tunnels, and it could take as little as 12 minutes to travel from point to point, according to a press release from the city.The announcement is a major step for The Boring Company, which was started in 2016 by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk founded the company in the hope of alleviating city gridlock by building more tunnels, an endeavor that has set the company's engineers toward improving tunneling techniques.
The next step will bring the company and the city together to negotiate a contract that will be presented to the Chicago City Council.
Previous city officials have tried to implement an express line between Chicago's largest airport and the downtown area but to no avail. This most recent effort was originally proposed last November, when the city opened up a "Request for Qualifications"—the first formal step in vetting companies eligible to submit proposals. Two companies, including The Boring Company, advanced past the second "Request for Proposals" stage in March. [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1331441
