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The Boring Company Announces Dec. 10 Debut for First Los Angeles Tunnel

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:47AM   
from the under-way dept.

takyon writes:

The Boring Company's LA test tunnel is almost complete

Today, Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the first Boring Company test tunnel under Los Angeles is almost finished. When it's complete, the system will be able to carry pedestrians, cyclists and private vehicles at speeds of 155 mph. People will be able to try the loop out for free at a special event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA, on December 10th.

Also at LA Times, The Verge, and The Washington Post.

Previously: Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel Near Los Angeles
Elon Musk pitches $1, 150 MPH "Loop" Rides under Los Angeles

Related: Washington, D.C. Granted Elon Musk's Boring Company an Excavation Permit for Possible Hyperloop
Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract
Elon Musk's Boring Bricks

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• The real reason for this.. The real reason for this.. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:21PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:21PM (#752495)

  http://www.weirdus.com/states/california/fabled_people_and_places/lizard_people/index.php [weirdus.com]

  He wants to make contact...

  Not that I've anything against our reptilian overlords, I live beside a port town where the denizens would be quite at home in Innsmouth...or Y'ha-nthlei...reptilians would be positively normal compared to this lot.

• Al Capone's Underground Vault (Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:34PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:34PM (#752520) Homepage Journal

  Recall that he only got ten years, and that was for tax evasion. They never managed to pin a murder rap on him.

  A while back someone got the idea that he had a vault underneath a certain street next to a certain building that Capone once owned but that construction on that street resulted in the vault being sealed off.

  I'd love to spoil it for you but it's even better to watch Geraldo Rivera's TV show about it. I think it's this one: https://youtu.be/yNk1eUfJzx8 [youtu.be]

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  Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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