{"id":79607,"date":"2018-06-14T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musks-boring-co-wins-chicago-airport-high-speed-train-bid"},"modified":"2018-06-14T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:23:08","slug":"elon-musks-boring-co-wins-chicago-airport-high-speed-train-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musks-boring-co-wins-chicago-airport-high-speed-train-bid","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-boring-co-wins-chicago-airport-high-speed-train-bid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Co. is the winner in a bid to build a multibillion-dollar high-speed express train to Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport. The result gives the young company a big boost in legitimacy as it tries to get transportation projects underway in Los Angeles and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The company beat out a consortium that included Mott MacDonald, the civil engineering firm that designed a terminal at London\u2019s Heathrow Airport, and JLC Infrastructure, an infrastructure fund backed by former basketball star Earvin \u201cMagic\u201d Johnson, people with knowledge of the matter said. The city is expected to announce the news as soon as Thursday, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren\u2019t authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-14\/elon-musk-s-boring-co-wins-chicago-airport-high-speed-train-bid\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;06&#45;14\/e...-train-bid<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Co. is the winner in a bid to build a multibillion-dollar high-speed express train to Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport. The result gives the young company a big boost in legitimacy as it tries to get transportation projects underway in Los Angeles and Washington. The company beat out a consortium that included Mott [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}