Posted on 04/21/2022 9:41:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk’s tunnel boring operation has moved its headquarters from the Los Angeles area to Texas and is pursuing several new tunnel projects in the Lone Star State.
The Boring Company, formerly in Hawthorne, Calif., is now based in Pflugerville, a suburb near Austin, Texas. The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Elon Musk. Its ongoing and proposed projects are designed for intra-city ("loop") transit systems. TBC has completed two tunnels in Las Vegas for loop travel. It has also completed one tunnel for testing loop travel in Los Angeles County. Other tunnels are in various stages of discussion and planning.
Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce President Patricia Donaldson said the move happened sometime in the past year.
The company announced on April 21 it had raised $675 million in new funding and is now valued at nearly $5.7 billion.
Musk founded The Boring Company in 2016 to “solve traffic.” The company has since completed its first transportation tunnel in Las Vegas and has many more in the planning stages.
“Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging,” Musk wrote on Twitter in 2016 before starting the company.
The company creates safe, fast-to-dig and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels, and has spent the last five years building technologies designed to mitigate traffic and beautify cities, according to its website.
A plan for the company to build a tunnel system within the city of Los Angeles appears to have stalled. The privately funded transit system was designed to allow travel from Westwood to LAX in just six minutes, said Musk at a TED Conference in 2017.
Another project, the Dugout Loop, was planned to connect L.A.’s Dodger Stadium to an undetermined terminal and has also not made progress. The system would have transported fans in a few minutes via a tunnel under Sunset Boulevard and Vin Scully Avenue.
The Los Angeles Dodgers organization was not available for comment about the status of the project, and the Boring Company has since removed the project information from its website.
The company also opened a 1.7-mile tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center in April 2021. The $5.2 million tunnel network is designed to shuttle about 4,400 passengers an hour.
Several additional tunneling projects may be in the works for the company in Texas. The Boring Company is communicating with officials about potential tunnels at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to connect the terminal to downtown Austin, according to local news reports.
Company officials have also met with City of Austin officials to discuss a possible underground transportation tunnel from the new Tesla Gigafactory in the city, according to KXAN.
Musk is also CEO of SpaceX, a reusable rocket company that remains based in Hawthorne, Calif., CEO of the electric vehicle company Tesla, and co-founder of Neuralink Corporation, a neurotechnology company developing brain implants to help people communicate and to assist with paralysis.
The Boring Company and SpaceX didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
That’s boring.
>> That’s boring.
That’s because you’re not tunneling your thoughts.
Did he take Interstate 10 on the surface or did he drill directly through the mantle?
You're the deep thinker here. Everything will be over our heads soon.
That's not drilling-The potholes on California freeways are incredible.
MONORAIL! MONORAIL! MONORAIL!
Have to consider the environment. By that, I mean sinkholes and such. May not be feasible in East Texas.
Sometimes he has tunnel vision.
Moving to Austin is like moving from one frying pan to
another.
The state is still better, but I’d avoid Leftist strong-holds
if I were him.
Yes, Walt volunteered to build a region wide system back
in the 50s or so. They turned him down.
I have no idea why they avoid that monorail.
It’s comfortable, quiet and could go through any
community.
Can you imagine what his net worth will be once he buys Twitter and makes it a real free speech platform? I would rejoin even if he charged for it.
Many of Elon Musk’s technologies are naturally of extreme interest to the military-industrial complex, typically the first customer of cutting edge technologies. The Tesla bot could use unmapped tunnels to safely hide-out, then fire weapons that were originally designed for American soldiers to use. NATO might morph into a single highly mobile military of robots, available for rent by non-NATO countries for a price.
Yeah, the depth of the passage is a bit complicated, but no doubt we’ll get through it.
Anyone looking at the breakdown record of the Disneyland monorail, even then, would instantly know why...
Also, at the time, GM was dumping money and spreading FUD to kill off all train systems in the area to sell more buses as a replacement.
Did they remember to take that left turn at Albuquerque?
Mass transit connecting to urban centers is obsolete. The urban centers contain office buildings and retail.
No one wants to go to the office anymore.
Ecommerce obsoletes retail stores.
the government avoids anything that functions.
We’re they that unreliable?
Seems like it.
Agreed—the place where tunnels will actually be needed are the Moon or Mars.
That will be the future “white flight”.
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