Elon Musks Boring Company is digging a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland

[CK_John]

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.

Musk seems to have changed his mind about not building his own Hyperloop though. In July, Musk tweeted that he had received “verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop.” Musk added that the infrastructure would allow people to go from New York to DC in 29 minutes.

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This guy should take over the rebuilding of PR. My opinion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That's not boring; it's actually kind of interesting.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Yeah. Terrible name n/t

[JDC]

7. Touch

[edhopper]

3. That sounds more like

a Shelbyville idea.

[elleng]

4. Not IS boring, has SOME 'permission.'

'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.'

[MontanaMama]

5. Wonder if there's been

an environmental assessment on this project...especially with National Park Service land involved?

[CK_John]

6. In his original proposal he say the "boring" would be below any existing

tunnel, foundation, cables or any man made items.

I wonder how deep that will be?

If you're below everything else then it would be hard to do an environment assessment.

[roamer65]

8. Given the the projections of sea level rises by 2100...

Will this area be under water in 80 years?

I think his efforts should be for holding off the sea level rise instead.

https://m.