Elon Musk’s tunneling company has dropped its plans to dig beneath Sepulveda Boulevard on the Westside because of an environmental lawsuit. Musk had wanted to dig a 2.7-mile tunnel planned along Sepulveda Boulevard on L.A.’s Westside. The Boring Company has posted images online showing a possible network of tunnel routes across L.A., with proposed stations …
The Boring Company will extend its tunneling project into the west side of Los Angeles. They want to tunnel 10 times faster and cheaper than traditional tunneling. Part of the gain is from having narrower tunnels compared to regular subways. Reducing the tunnel diameter by 50% will also reduce the cross-sectional area of the tunnel …
DARPA has selected nine teams to compete in the Subterranean (SubT) Challenge to develop new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments. This will better equip warfighters and first responders to explore human-made tunnel systems, urban underground, and natural cave networks that are too dangerous, dark, or deep to risk human lives. DARPA …
Elon Musk says the Boring Co urban loop system would have 1000’s of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination and blend seamlessly into the fabric of a city, rather than a small number of big stations like a subway. Better video coming soon, but …
The Hawthorne City Council has given approval for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to construct a 2 mile long test tunnel below the South Bay city. In a 4-1 decision Tuesday, the council voted to allow the two-mile tunneling project to go forward. Musk’s new company has already begun a smaller tunneling project below the SpaceX …