2024-12-24T11:49:27-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150069323/elon-musk-s-boring-company-selected-to-build-chicago-airport-high-speed-transit-tunnel Alexander Walter 2018-06-15T14:53:00-04:00 >2018-06-15T14:56:21-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e0/e05250009090251c46526ac757a93ed9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Autonomous 16-passenger vehicles would zip back and forth at speeds exceeding 100 mph in tunnels between the Loop and O&rsquo;Hare International Airport under a high-speed transit proposal being negotiated between Mayor Rahm Emanuel&rsquo;s City Hall and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk&rsquo;s The Boring Co., city and company officials have confirmed. Emanuel&rsquo;s administration has selected Musk&rsquo;s company from four competing bids to provide high-speed transportation between downtown and the airport.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Musk's <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/877400/the-boring-company" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Boring Co.</a> beat out established engineering firms, including Mott MacDonald and JLC Infrastructure, even though it has famously been in business for less than two years and only has a test tunnel near the company's headquarters in the Los Angeles area to show for as construction experience.</p>