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Elon Musk's Boring Company has received permission to dig 10.1 miles of tunnel in Maryland:
On Thursday, Maryland officials gave Elon Musk's Boring Company permission to dig a 10.1-mile tunnel "beneath the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, between the Baltimore city line and Maryland 175 in Hanover," according to the Baltimore Sun.
According to Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn, The Boring Company (which Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk founded to advance tunneling technology) wants to build two 35-mile tunnels between Baltimore and Washington, DC. The federal government owns about two-thirds of the land that Musk's company would need to dig underneath. As of Friday, it was unclear whether that permission had been granted. (A Department of Transportation spokeswoman told Ars that the land in question was owned by the National Park Service, which did not immediately respond to request for comment.)
But the 10 miles that have been approved by the state of Maryland will for the first leg of an underground system that could contain a Hyperloop system. Musk first floated the idea of a Hyperloop—which would ferry passengers through a low-pressure tube in levitating pods floating above a track using air-bearings—in 2013. But the CEO determined that he didn't have time to see his idea through to fruition, so he issued a white paper and challenged startups and students alike to make headway on the concept.
Also at The Washington Post (archive).
Previously: Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 23 2017, @12:29PM (7 children)
Just in time for the Second American Revolution to lay waste to DC and Wall Street and move the capital to Denver for the dawning of the Second American Republic and its stark move away from the aristocratic fantasies of the DC-NY power elite.
Well, I can dream.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday October 23 2017, @01:32PM (5 children)
Washington, as you know, is a swamp. It's a swamp built on a swamp. I like your idea of moving the capital. If I do, I'll move it to Palm Beach. Can you imagine that? I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster after another. Crooked Hillary and her friends in global finance tried to scare America into thinking small -- and they tried to scare the American people out of voting for a better future. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 23 2017, @07:03PM (4 children)
Moving it from a swamp to a place about to be underwater?
I vote for Kansas, or the Dakotas.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 23 2017, @07:37PM (2 children)
South Dakota I can sort of see. The Black Hills are awesome and the Badlands are, too.
Why Kansas, though? Unless you mean to place them in the middle of tornado alley in which case I applaud your diabolical plan...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 23 2017, @07:45PM (1 child)
You read right through me...
Officially, Kansas is the center of the country, IIRC. Forcing all the DC [bleep] to move there would be a good test of their dedication to the career.
The badlands and black hills are fine, until winter comes knocking...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 23 2017, @08:06PM
I concede. You are right. Kansas is the better choice. All the DC mavens, lawyers, and lobbyists and Wall Street bankers would shrivel up and die if they had to go there.
Plus, Kansans all speak English, work hard, and are honest. That should buy the Second American Republic at least another 250 years.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:02AM
Believe me, I'm not underwater with Mar-a-Lago. I bought it for a song, only $7 million. Fixed it up and it's now bringing me a very nice income. My members pay a $200,000 initiation fee and $14,000 in annual dues. Overnight parking is $2,000 per night. It's an acquisition that's been very, very accretive for me.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday October 23 2017, @02:50PM
Denver? The new pot-smoking capital of the US? You really think a bunch of pot-smokers are going to successfully revolt?