My personal bias here - if you were dumb enough to help with Elon's "hyperloop" scam (Lyle Lanley-ing his way around the country to lobby against public transit in favor of his fake bullshit) then you don't get to run anything.
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The credulous mayor of Miami told reporters Elon was going to build a tunnel in six months for $30 million, when a recently completed tunnel nearby cost $1 billion.
Sorry for your luck Dave but you keep showing up every time I refresh my feed. Maybe it’s a miracle!! I AM dumb enough to love a hole in the ground that moves one car at a time!
Okay, yeah, this is a fair hit. Even still, this was a different Elon, and since Rahm wasn’t in pit fights with aldermen, he could court razzle-dazzle things like this for Chicago. Stuff like the Lucas Museum that the hippies ruined for us.
I still can't get over How nobody actually wanted him to get that ambassadorship, because he's absolutely terrible, but biden gave it to him anyway because the democratic party is a job security program for weasels.
I'm partial to the theory that both the WH and the Senate were happy to send him to the other side of the world. I feel like I read somewhere that the Japanese love him, though maybe I'm just imaging that as it really seems hard to believe.
The Blue Line Boondoggle creating an unneeded parallel L that saves nothing in time, expense, even prestige for a city, that hyperloop was a way I measured a seriousness to someone in both macro policy and micro transportation policy
The best part of that was it was to connect O'Hare with the Loop in downtown Chicago. Which already exists with the CTA Blue Line and is the best, simplest rail connection of an airport to city in the country.
The proposed plan had the tunnel running directly under my house. I thought I was going to have to get sinkhole insurance until I realized how much of a scam the whole thing was.
when I backpacked across Europe, this was the first (& last steps) I took on my journey. over 20 transit systems and this was one of the contenders for best overall.
One of your colleagues in the press recently complained about being stuck in traffic from ORD to the Loop and that was like a bat signal for Chicago twitter. 😂
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https://apnews.com/article/technology-florida-ron-desantis-miami-elon-musk-5450996158cd31dc9395f7cadcd57d0c
Probably not.
I heard he became a lobbyist.
Pity.
Even “The Simpsons” monorail knew it was a grift