Tom Blair initially was skeptical of Hyperloop One’s transportation technology when he visited the company’s headquarters a year ago. But after meeting with the Hyperloop team for several hours, he said he walked away a believer.
Blair is the assistant district engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation in St. Louis, and he led the charge for submitting MoDOT’s application to Hyperloop One’s Global Challenge, which asked applicants from around the world to make their case for getting…