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Local leaders cooling to Boring Company tunnel promises

Virginia state transit officials are telling The Boring Company "thanks but no thanks," at least for now. The Virginia Mercury reported yesterday that the state's chief of rail transportation, Michael McLaughlin, was not sufficiently impressed by his recent visit to Elon Musk's test tunnel in California to recommend that the state work with the startup.

"It's a car in a very small tunnel," McLaughlin reportedly told the state's Transportation Board public transit subcommittee this week. "If one day we decide it's feasible, we'll obviously come back to you," he added.

[...] In February, Musk tweeted that the company was working on improving its test tunnel. "Focus right now is getting to high speed, tight follow distance in test tunnel," the CEO tweeted. He said that "Line-Storm," The Boring Company's second-generation boring machine, would start getting updates "in a month or so."

But even as The Boring Company says it's trying to improve on tunneling efficiency and design, Chicago may be looking to take a step back from the express line that Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledged to build with the company. The mayor's office announced in June 2018 that it would work with The Boring Company to build a long-awaited express line between O'Hare International Airport and the Windy City's downtown area.

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Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract
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Original Submission

1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Local leaders cooling to Boring Company tunnel promises" - https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/local-leaders-cooling-to-boring-company-tunnel-promises/
3. "Virginia Mercury" - https://www.virginiamercury.com/2019/03/21/virginia-transit-officials-drove-through-elon-musks-tunnel-they-say-theyll-stick-with-railways-and-roads/
4. "CEO tweeted" - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1100389637615280128
5. "Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/21/0329207
6. "Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel Near Los Angeles" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/30/2353246
7. "Washington, D.C. Granted Elon Musk's Boring Company an Excavation Permit for Possible Hyperloop" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/18/1926237
8. "Elon Musk's Boring Company Wins Chicago O'Hare International Airport Transportation Contract" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/06/14/095247
9. "Elon Musk's Boring Bricks" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/14/014254
10. "The Boring Company Announces Dec. 10 Debut for First Los Angeles Tunnel" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/10/23/0144217
11. "The Boring Company Won't Pursue Los Angeles Tunnel Under 405 Freeway" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/12/03/1320258
12. "Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover'" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/13/1915233
13. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=32597

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