Transportation
Who's Ready to Hyperloop to Cleveland?
A company has inked a deal with state and local authorities to officially study the idea of a Chicago-to-Northern-Ohio supertrain.
From Chicago to Cleveland takes six hours by train, at least five by car, and an hour in the air. By hyperloop? That would be more like 28 minutes.
The prospect of a trans-Rust Belt supertrain might seem like a fanciful notion, but Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a company based in Culver City, California, has taken at least one small step toward making the futuristic transportation system real: The firm signed a partnership with the Illinois Department of Transportation and North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency to conduct a feasibility study, HTT announced on February 15. The study is expected to take six months, according to Andrea La Mendola, HTT’s chief global operations officer.