通往未来的高速地下电车
Chicago has selected Elon Musk's Boring Company to build and operate an "express service to transport people to O'Hare Airport from downtown in 12 minutes on electric vehicles in underground tunnels," Mayor Rahm Emanuel says.
芝加哥已经选中了艾伦.马斯克的博润公司来建造和运营“一条在地下隧道用电车将人们在12分钟内送达奥黑尔机场的路线，”市长拉姆.伊曼纽尔说。
The Chicago Express Loop would be "100 percent privately funded," the Boring Company says.
这条芝加哥电车环路将“百分之百由私人出资，”博润公司称。
Emanuel added that there would be no public subsidy to help pay for it.
伊曼纽尔补充道政府也会出资补贴这个项目。
"We're really excited to work with the mayor and the city to bring this new high-speed public transportation system to Chicago," a Boring Company spokesman said as the company announced the news on Thursday.
“我们很欣慰能跟市长和市民们一起，将这种高速的公共交通系统带给芝加哥，”一名博润公司的发言人在周四该公司发布新闻的时候说道。
Currently, some 20,000 air travelers move between the airport and Chicago's central business district every day, according to the Chicago Infrastructure Trust.
最近，每天游多达20000名飞机乘客从机场去往芝加哥市中心商业区，据芝加哥基础设施信托数据。
The agency adds that the figure is predicted to reach to at least 35,000 daily air passengers in 2045.
该机构还补充道这个数字预计在2045年会达到每天35000名飞机乘客。
The Boring Company says it would transport passengers "on autonomous electric skates traveling at 125-150 miles per hour," with each skate capable of carrying between 8 and 16 passengers.
博润公司称它将“使用自动驾驶的速度达到125-150英里每小时的电动滑板车”来运送乘客，每一个滑板车能够载8到16名乘客。
The skates would be based on Musk's Tesla Model X, and confined to a concrete track.
这些滑板车是以马斯克的特斯拉模型X为基础的，被固定于混凝土轨道上。
The plans to connect airports in Chicago and Los Angeles are a bit less ambitious than one Musk floated last summer, to connect New York City and Washington, D.C.
将芝加哥和洛杉矶的机场联通起来的计划，相比马斯克去年夏天吹嘘的要将纽约市和华盛顿D.C.市联通起来的野心还是逊色多了。
Musk unveiled that undertaking last July, saying the Boring Company had received "verbal govt approval" to build a Hyperloop tube train system that would be capable of whisking passengers from New York to Washington in 29 minutes.
马斯克透露从去年七月开始，博润公司就受到了“政府的口头许可”要建造超级环路动车隧道，它可以让游客们29分钟内就从纽约飞驰驶往华盛顿。
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