https://medium.com/@bidhive/elon-musk-the-boring-company-and-the-procurement-dilemma-73c0c1d78ed2

When SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that his latest company, The Boring Company, will bid for a new high speed link connecting O’Hare Airport to downtown Chicago, the Twittersphere went into overdrive.

It comes after the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, visited Musk in LA to hear more of the billionaire’s vision for a high speed transport system, and the experimental technology that could dramatically reduce transport infrastructure construction costs. Musk hopes the technology, including the recycling of soil for use as ‘earth bricks’ instead of concrete, will speed up the drilling of narrow shafts to deploy electromagnetic sleds at speeds of 125 mph (200 km/h). An initial test tunnel is currently under construction beneath the SpaceX office in Hawthorne, CA.