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  • Can Elon Musk really build an underground tunnel in San Antonio?

    03/25/2022 5:08:55 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 47 replies
    KENS 5 News ^ | March 18, 2022 | Teresa Velasco
    SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County leaders will study whether Elon Musk's Boring Co. can drill a 9-mile tunnel where automated Teslas would ferry people between the airport and downtown. Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (RMA) board members voted Wednesday to negotiate a project plan with the billionaire's company. "The board has continually sought innovative ways to finance transportation projects to ensure a bright future for the community in a way that bridges technology and accelerates the delivery of needed projects," chairman Mike Lynd said in a statement. "Today's board action is the first of many discussions," he added. Musk's company already...
  • Perry's office sees no toll moratorium at all

    06/04/2007 4:24:13 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 11 replies · 403+ views
    San Antonio Express-News ^ | June 3, 2007 | Patrick Driscoll
    Now that legislators have gone home and trumpeted how they passed a bill to freeze private financing of toll roads, the governor's office has some bubble-busting news. There isn't much of a moratorium in Senate Bill 792. "Of any kind, that we can tell," said Robert Black, spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry. "Unless there was something screwy that happened." Actually, there were plenty of screwy machinations in the Legislature as lawmakers hammered out bills to rein in tolling powers of the Texas Department of Transportation. Slapping a two-year moratorium on privatization contracts started out simple. But skittish lawmakers carved out...