The administration of the city of Chicago announced a competition for the best project of the highway connecting the center with the airport Ohara. Of course, the desire to build the best and high speed tunnel have expressed a desire and head of SpaceX and The Boring Company of Elon Musk, who explained his project of a tunnel Loop with an electric passenger Elevator.
Now The Boring Company is planning two projects: one will be built near Los Angeles, the second will be the transport tunnel between Baltimore and Washington. While the company is establishing a test tunnel whose length is about three kilometers. In the nearest plans of the Mask should increase the performance of drilling rigs, probably why the head of the company decided not to limit myself to two big projects and wanted to take the third.
Now from downtown Chicago to the airport have to travel an hour, so the local authorities have long thought about how to build the new transport system can reduce the trip to twenty minutes — then the speed of the capsule and the tunnel Mask can be very useful. He has said that it will offer the authorities a Chicago analogue of the Hyperloop, but without the vacuum in the tubes.
Among other details in the public procurement specified that the transportation system should work for most of the day or around the clock, ensuring a comfortable flight from the center to the airport at a price comparable with a trip on Uber. Musk has said it will participate in the competition.
In the next month and a half, the city administration will study the candidates and their projects, the contractor will choose at the end of January 2018.
Elon Musk has discussed with the mayor of Chicago build analogue Hyperloop
Vyacheslav Larionov