Great Lakes Hyperloop Tender

ScopeThe Great Lakes Hyperloop System which is being pursued by the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies initially included only planning between Cleveland and Chicago. But in September Pittsburgh was added to the process after the Richard King Mellon Foundation donated 100000 to the project.As a result the planning agency will hold private meetings Wednesday with Pittsburghs strategic advisory committee and area officials. The agency expects to release a feasibility study in December and hold community meetings for public comment in January including a meeting in PittsburghThe project began more than three years ago when Hyperloop Transportation was looking for potential projects. U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur D-Ohio joined with Ohio transit firms lobbyists and transportation businesses to recommend Northeast Ohio for a public-private partnership with Hyperloop Transportation.Now there are strategic planning committees in Pittsburgh Cleveland and Chicago as well as several dozen universities and private businesses working with the partners to develop the project. Northeast Ohio and Hyperloop Transportation are splitting the cost of the 1.3 million feasibility study. Promotional material claims the system will be able to deliver passengers or freight from Pittsburgh to Chicago in just under an hour.