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posted by martyb on Monday December 03 2018, @02:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the hey-man,-can-you-dig-it? dept.

The Boring Company won’t pursue LA tunnel under 405 freeway anymore

Back in August, The Boring Company was already distancing itself from a plan it pitched earlier in the year to build a test tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, The Boring Company and a group of Westside residents issued a joint statement that they had "amicably settled" a lawsuit brought by the residents against The Boring Company in May of this year, according to the Los Angeles Times. The company, founded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said it would drop plans to build the 405 test tunnel and focus instead on building the so-called "Dugout Loop" that will run between a downtown LA Metro station and Dodger Stadium, if all goes as planned.

Elon Musk talks proof-of-concept tunnel parallel to the 405 in Los Angeles Musk announced the 405-parallel tunnel in an evening talk back in May, describing it as a 2.7 mile north-south test tunnel that wouldn't carry the general public—at first. Musk added at the time that The Boring Company would eventually do test rides to get user feedback. The City of Los Angeles appeared poised to fast-track Musk's idea, with LA Metro announcing: "We'll be partners moving forward."

[...] Now, The Boring Company intends to focus on the Dugout Loop, for which it has begun the CEQA permitting process (although it's unclear if a full permit will be acquired before construction starts). Critics have charged that The Boring Company has taken advantage of poorer neighborhoods, like the Hawthorne neighborhood under which Musk's first tunnel is being completed. Meanwhile, richer neighborhoods represented by the coalition of Westside neighborhoods have the resources to fight back. Others might see the opposition from wealthy LA neighborhoods as a form of NIMBYism that stops innovation from coming to impacted LA transit.

For now, Musk's first Hawthorne tunnel is almost complete. The Boring company intends to open the tunnel to the public in December.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by dwilson on Monday December 03 2018, @04:25PM (2 children)

    by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 03 2018, @04:25PM (#769178) Journal

    Capitalists are people with capital (ie, money) that wish to invest it in some enterprise or activity, hoping to increase it. Elon Musk doing 'really stupid things' with his capital has nothing to do with being a capitalist, but has everything to do with being Elon Musk.

    I apologize if that seems obvious, but you made an implied assertion (Being a capitalist means you have to do stupid things with your capital) that just isn't true.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday December 03 2018, @05:53PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 03 2018, @05:53PM (#769209) Journal

    Sometimes we call people Capitalists because they had their own capital, and used it to build some really crazy stupid things that would never work. Like inexpensive practical electric light bulbs.

    Or the very first pocket mp3 player (diamond rio I think) . . . who would even use such a crazy thing? Who even knows what an mp3 is, and of those who do know, how many of them go jogging and need a small solid state player? And then they get the honor of being the first sued by the RIAA because they make a device that people could potentially use to play pirated content.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @11:29AM (#769494)

    Capitalists are people with capital (ie, money) that wish to invest it in some enterprise or activity,

    Yes.

    hoping to increase it.

    While that is the usual motive, it is not part of the definition of “capitalist”. A capitalist is someone who invests capital, period.