Fran Spielman interviews Ray LaHood about 737 Max jet groundings, Elon Musk’s O’Hare Express project

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Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was interviewed by Fran Spielman Friday, March 15, 2019. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times

Republican Ray LaHood, the former Peoria congressman who served as transportation secretary during Barack Obama’s first term, said Chicago-based Boeing should have grounded its own fleet of 737 Max jets the moment Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed into a farm field about 40 miles from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 passengers and crew.

He also said that Elon Musk’s plan to build a “Tesla-in-a-tunnel” high-speed transit system between downtown and O’Hare Airport was a “pipe dream” from the get-go and it’s a good thing that project is dead.

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