Political Forums - The Boring Company

'Elon Musk talks proof-of-concept tunnel parallel to the 405 in Los Angeles'

"On Thursday evening in Los Angeles, Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk laid out plans for The Boring Company to start building longer tunnels under the city. The first step? A 2.7 mile north-south test tunnel parallel to one of the city's most congested freeways, the 405. This test tunnel won't carry the general public, but The Boring Company does intend to do test rides to get user feedback eventually.

The company has buy-in from LA Metro, the city's public transportation provider. In a short, tweeted statement Thursday evening, LA Metro announced: "Metro leadership and CEO Phil Washington had a great meeting today with the talented staff of the @boring_company. They will coordinate with us as they move ahead with their proof of concept tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard to ensure it doesn't interfere with our Sepulveda Transit Corridor rail project. We'll be partners moving forward."
(The Sepulveda Transit Corridor is in preliminary stages and could be a public transportation route linking the San Fernando Valley and LAX).

The company has ambitiously projected that using its tunnel solution, a person could get from LAX to Dodger Stadium in 10 minutes, or the Getty Center to Union Station in 12 minutes. (This author was born and raised in LA and is extremely skeptical of these numbers but would love to be proven wrong.)" ars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05...n-los-angeles/

Love how this kid thinks big and if it weren't for his unqualified success with his other venture, SpaceEx, he would be easy to laugh off as some classic 'pie in the sky' oxygen deprived space cadet who read too much Heinlein, Asimov and Bradbury.

High speed underground maglev public transportation would be cool as hell in the hyper crowded LA Basin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company