Jump to content


Photo

Which Way for O'Hare Express?


  • Please log in to reply
27 replies to this topic

#21 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 22 March 2018 - 08:54 AM

Chicago Sun-Times, 3/20/18:
 

O’Hare Express competition down to two — and Elon Musk is one of them

 

 

Competition to build an elusive high-speed rail line between downtown and a soon-to-be-expanded O’Hare Airport has been narrowed to two teams — and visionary billionaire Elon Musk is the captain of one of them.

 

Musk’s The Boring Company plans to create a “high-speed loop” using “electric pods” in underground tunnels he claims can be built for far less money because of the “boring” technology he has pioneered.

 

He will vie against O’Hare Xpress LLC, whose power player participants include Meridiam, Antarctica Capital, JLC Infrastructure, Mott MacDonald and First Transit.

 

Continue here.



#22 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 14 June 2018 - 05:21 PM

Metro Magazine, 6/14/18:
 

The Boring Co. chosen to build Chicago Express Service

 

 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced selection of The Boring Co. to build and operate an express service to O’Hare International Airport. The company plans to transport passengers between O’Hare and Block 37 in the Loop in approximately 12 minutes each way by utilizing electric vehicles that run through new twin underground tunnels. The project will be funded entirely by the company with no taxpayer subsidy.

 

M-TheBoringCompany-ChicagoLoop-viaTheBor

Rendering of the underground Chicago Loop service, which will

transport passengers from downtown to O'Hare International Airport.

Photo: The Boring Company

 

The Boring Co. was one of two final teams selected to respond to a Request for Proposals issued in March by the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT), on behalf  of the City of Chicago. The RFP was seeking a respondent to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain an O’Hare Express service. The City will now begin one-on-one contract negotiations with The Boring Co. Following this negotiation process the agreement will be presented to the City Council.

“We’re really excited to work with the Mayor and the City to bring this new high-speed public transportation system to Chicago,” Boring Co. Founder Elon Musk said.

 

Continue here.



#23 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 14 June 2018 - 05:25 PM

WLS-TV CHicago, IL 6/14/18:
 

Elon Musk says 12-minute trip to O'Hare possible within three years

 

 

CHICAGO (WLS) -- High speed rail, connecting Chicago's Loop to O'Hare is now on track to be become a high teach reality. Thursday the mayor and the billionaire who wants to build the "Tesla Tunnel" were talking details.
 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel showed Elon Musk what would be part of the underground station for the new high speed line. It would utilize a mothballed station under Block 37, the launching spot in the Loop for the line that would be known as the Chicago Express.

It would whisk travelers to O'Hare on electric skates, powered by technology used in Tesla Model X vehicles.

The system will use electric vehicles that run through a 17-mile system of new twin underground tunnels.

 

Continue here w/video clip.



#24 KevinKorell

KevinKorell

    Board Leader

  • Sr. Admin
  • PipPip
  • 82315 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Lakewood, NJ
  • Interests:Making America TRAIN again!

Posted 16 August 2018 - 07:17 PM

WBEZ Radio, Chicago, IL, 8/9/18:

 

 


 

How Elon Musk's O'Hare Express Got The Fast Track In Chicago

 

 

Underneath the popular Block 37 shopping complex in downtown Chicago is a partially finished, unused train station. There are no turnstyles or escalators, just an elevator and a few rectangular openings in the ground.

 

 

Story is here.



Kevin Korell


OTOL Board Leader


Lakewood, NJ


#25 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 26 September 2018 - 04:23 PM

Crain's Chicago Business, 9/25/18:
 

Musk's O'Hare express train in line for federal boost

 

A pending measure would allow Chicago to use passenger ticket taxes to pay the cost of the O'Hare terminal for the proposed $1 billion line.

 

 

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s plan for a 12-minute express train from the Loop to O’Hare International Airport may be in line for a little financial help courtesy of the federal government.

Tucked into a bill to renew the life of the Federal Aviation Administration is a section that would allow local airport authorities to use their $4.50-per-seat ticket tax, formally known as the passenger facility charge, for transportation projects on airport properties. According to Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Chicago, who sits on the House transportation committee, Musk's project would qualify, as well as other items such as a proposed extension of O’Hare's people mover to the west end of the airfield.

 

Continue here.



#26 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 16 December 2018 - 02:28 PM

Chicago Sun-Times,12/14/18:
 

Aldermen, city officials to travel to L.A. for Elon Musk demonstration

 

 

A taxpayer-funded delegation that includes eight Chicago aldermen and four city officials will travel to Los Angeles next week to get a first-hand look at the unproven technology Elon Musk plans to use to build a high-speed transit system between downtown and O’Hare Airport.

 

The Boring Company, owned by the visionary billionaire of Tesla fame, is conducting a “proof of concept” tunnel demonstration event in suburban Los Angeles.

 

It’ll be the first test of Musk’s so-far unproven technology along a mile-long tunnel between SpaceX headquarters in suburban Los Angeles and another location in that same town of Hawthorne, Ca.

 

Continue here.



#27 CNJRoss

CNJRoss

    Administrator

  • Admin
  • PipPip
  • 43390 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Fairfax, VA

Posted 20 December 2018 - 03:09 PM

Crain's Chicago Business, 12/19/18:

What a prospective customer saw in Musk's tunnel vision

 

Sure the ride was bumpy. But after seeing what Boring Co. had to offer at a Tuesday night test session in L.A., City Hall still wants to greenlight the Loop-to-O'Hare tunnel project.

 

 

Robert Rivkin flew to L.A. to see a hole in the ground and came away impressed.

 

It wasn’t just any hole in the ground—it was Elon Musk’s hole in the ground, one he spent tens of millions digging. It’s about 1 mile long, a scale model, if you will, of the tunnel Musk says he can build between downtown Chicago and O’Hare International Airport.

 

SNIP

 

The reality so far is, well, more pedestrian. Groups of four people went for rides in Tesla X electric cars outfitted essentially with rubber bumpers, driving through a concrete tunnel at 35 to 50 mph. Not unlike many of Musk’s projects, there’s a certain just-in-time, minimum-viable-product feel to it all. But Rivkin says he’s encouraged enough by what he saw and experienced to continue negotiating a contract that he hopes to present to the Chicago City Council in the first quarter.

 



#28 steve4031

steve4031

    Member

  • Members
  • PipPip
  • 1514 posts

Posted 29 December 2018 - 03:19 AM

Chicago will be an international laughingstock if they actually go through with this. Europe has plenty of examples of connecting its airports to the rail system.




1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users