The high speed train at the center of the study seats passengers in pods moving through a vacuum-maintained steel tube at speeds around 700 mph. If all goes according to plan, the 313-mile route between Cleveland and Chicago will take around 28 minutes.
With technological advances bringing the ultra-futuristic Hyperloop closer to reality, HTT has teamed up with the North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and the Illinois Department of Transportation to complete the study. With funding from all three entities, the study would explore potential routes for the train, which would also connect to Pittsburgh.
The potential Hyperloop also opens up the possibility of living in one city and working in another. While the idea of moving to Cleveland may strike fear in the heart of some Chicagoans, a corresponding 98-percent decrease in rent prices might be an effective selling point.
This article appears in Feb 21-27, 2018.
For the record – referencing your source, average rents would decrease by roughly 50% for Chicagoans, not 98%. Cleveland isn’t THAT cheap.
No, it’s not 98%…Chicago is not San Francisco or Boston or New York. That’s the writers idea of a snarky little joke. Ha ha ha and nyuk nyuk nyuk. Meh.
What homeowners would get for selling their Chicago house would allow them to buy three houses here. Not long ago, that number would have been five. Home values in Cleveland are on the rise.
But their profits would be eaten up by the cost of a monthly ticket on this fancy-shmancy train. Probably cheaper to live in Indiana or Wisconsin and take an ordinary commuter train. Longer travel times, though.
and your going to train to Chicago each morning lol at what cost
Click on the red “98” in last line of the story and you can see for yourselves where he got that number. From some online chart that compares living costs in Chicago and Cleveland.
That giant sucking sound would be all the Clevelander’s exiting Cleveland to SHOP and DINE . How many Chicagoans would come to Cleveland to GO SHOPPING . This is a win- win for Chicago and a loss – loss for Cleveland . Everyone going to Chicago no one coming to Cleveland. Plus the danger of traveling that fast on land.
This will kill Cleveland Hopkins Airport. 28 minutes to catch a direct flight out of Chicago .
Nah. Because Chicagoans can move here for MUCH less. When I lived in Chicago, and worked in Chicago, my commute was more than 28 minutes. It gives a more affordable option to Chicagoans as well…even developers.
700 miles per hour , yikes. Conductor :” I’m sorry sir, you may have arrived in Chicago, but I think your stomach may still be in Toledo…”