Oh, it is less efficient. Simply running plain old trains with a few minutes headway would move far more people than a dozen or so people in a single car leaving every 30 seconds.

The solution to traffic is and always has been mass transit not more roads above or below ground (because of induced demand), but there’s no sexy way to invent that so we get stuff like inadequate tunnels instead.

Well since nearly all of my reputation is media-fed and I can’t actually deliver on most of what I promise, I obviously choose B because the media won’t be overly critical of me and I need that sweet, sweet attention.

I guess I was being too generous then, lol

I would counter that there are very few actual innovative businessmen because the private sector isn’t very innovative except when it comes to extracting profit, so in that sense Musk is actually about as innovative as his peers are.

Or his ex wives!

The funny thing about people who will fight you with impassioned screeds about how much he TRIES and WHO ELSE DOES THAT is they can’t seem to imagine all the people working to innovate daily who don’t bother cultivating a persona by ingratiating himself to the media and tweeting all day.

His vision involves something called an electric skate instead of a car which, according to him, could move at the high speeds (150 mph) he imagines. That would be quite a feat.

Yes. Making fun of him is good.

His worldview is very mid-20th Century, particular in its car worship. He’s like a 1950's futurist dropped into today as if nothing has changed since then.

I believe the reasoning is that his tunnels are cheaper, but I also believe that’s entirely a product of them just being smaller than tunnels that would hold rail cars.

You probably should mention that the rooftop owners had an ongoing lawsuit against the Ricketts that definitely needed to be resolved before the videoboards could go in.

I mean, that’s not directly the Ricketts fault since that entire development isn’t owned by the Ricketts.

Nah, she sucks too.

Taking dollars from the amusement tax pool is a direct subsidy, you dingus.

They’re not gonna fuck you.

Wrigley is a landmark and was when they bought it, so their bitching about the city being stingy in preserving that status is hardly justified bitching.

I like the world he lives in where Jerry Reinsdorf is a liberal and that’s why people don’t complain about the stadium deal he made in the late 1980's.

They would have built a replica of Wrigley, not a generic modern-style stadium.

The move would have been to Rosemont, which offered a piece of land for free to build a replica of Wrigley, not out of the Greater Chicago area. It would have been a miserable location with landing jets overhead and one of the busy interchanges in the city snarling traffic for hours on end. Ultimately, a minor league…