Monday morning, April 13, 1992, should have been just another day in The Loop, which is home to the city's seat of government, the State of Illinois' seat of government, the Chicago Board of Trade, which is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is a global derivatives marketplace.įor decades, workers in the Loop had heard rumors of a secret tunnel system running beneath the Loop, and it turns out, those rumours were true. The Chicago FloodĬhicago has a long and strange history with tunnels. Downtown Chicago is known as 'the Loop' due to the elevated commuter tracks that encircle it.
Then, in June 2018 Musk's company was selected by the City of Chicago to create a tunnel that would run from O'Hare International Airport to downtown Chicago. Undeterred, Musk next proposed a tunnel from Hawthorne along Interstate 405 to Westwood.
When Musk announced a tunnel that would connect the Los Angeles airport, LAX, with Culver City, residents of the wealthy enclave of Brentwood shut the project down. The company's first project, using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Godot, was a tunnel beneath the Hawthorne, California home of SpaceX that ran more than a kilometre to a parking area. Originally part of Musk's SpaceX, TBC became an independent company in 2018. He announced his new tunnel-digging company, The Boring Company (TBC), in December 2016. When Elon Musk got sick of Los Angeles's terrible traffic, he did something about it. In 1992, a leak in a system of long-forgotten freight tunnels underneath the city flooded Chicago's downtown, and caused $3.2 billion in damage.
0 kommentar(er)
