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Late last year, entrepreneur Elon Musk sent out a series of tweets complainin\"Musk\"g about the heavy traffic in LA. Can’t argue with him there –\u00a0 Southern California has the country\u2019s worst traffic, according to a study released by the data company Inrix<\/a>. Musk called being stuck in traffic \u201csoul-destroying.\u201d But he didn\u2019t just whine, he proposed a solution: tunnels.<\/p>\n

At first, it wasn\u2019t clear if this was a billionaire’s joke or if he\u2019s really serious about The Boring Company (suggested tagline: it’s not boring!). But then Musk added \u201cTunnels\u201d to his Twitter bio, alongside Tesla, SpaceX and OpenAI, and the announced on January 28 that digging has begun.<\/p>\n

A team of workers excavated a \u201ctest trench\u201d 30 feet wide, 50 feet long and 15 feet deep on the grounds of SpaceX\u2019s Los Angeles headquarters, at Crenshaw Boulevard and 120th<\/sup> Street. So far, Musk calls it the start of an experiment. The \u201cpilot tunnel\u201d will only traverse Crenshaw Boulevard to SpaceX\u2019s employee parking structure, but he made it public that his tunnel ambitions are much bigger.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just going to figure out what it takes to improve tunneling speed by, I think, somewhere between 500 and 1,000 percent,\u201d he\u00a0said during a recent Hyperloop design competition at SpaceX. \u201cWe have no idea what we\u2019re doing\u2014I want to be clear about that. We\u2019re going to get this machine, take it apart, figure out how to make it go much faster while still being safe and not affecting people on the surface. We\u2019ll see how much progress we can make, but I\u2019m optimistic tunneling can be improved by at least five-fold, maybe 10-fold.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s key to a lot of technologies\u2014road tunnels, train tunnels, Hyperloop tunnels. For those who aren’t familiar, Hyperloop is a space-agey proposed mode of transportation that propels a pod-like vehicle through a near-vacuum tube faster than a plane or bullet train.<\/p>\n

In Musk’s thinking, tunnels make sense in alleviating traffic\u2014buildings are 3D, one can move in them both up and down and horizontally, while city roads are 2D.<\/p>\n

“[Everyone] wants to go into the building and leave the building at a same time,\u201d he said. \u201cOn a 2D road network, that obviously doesn\u2019t work, so you have to go 3D either up or down. And I think probably down.”<\/p>\n

In direct messages sent to The Verge<\/em><\/a> via Twitter, Musk said that “we will all be in traffic hell forever” without tunnels, adding \u201cI really do think tunnels are the key to solving urban gridlock. Being stuck in traffic is soul-destroying. Self-driving cars will actually make it worse by making vehicle travel more affordable.”<\/p>\n

Reactions to the tunneling project are mixed\u2014amid all the \u201cboring\u201d puns, some favor the idea, while the skeptical ones consider it ridiculous. There are numerous things that raise questions, besides all the necessary approvals entailed by such a project. Musk will need approval from the Los Angeles City Council in order to extend the tunnel to LAX, which is his stated goal. In addition, there\u2019s the cost component of the project, as well as environmental hurdles to overcome.<\/p>\n

What do you think, LA drivers? Could tunnels be the answer to perpetual gridlock?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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