Elon Musk's LA tunnel has started to take shape and the entrepreneur revealed photo of it on Twitter.
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, said the current tunnel under SpaceX's home in Hawthorne, California is just 500 feet but he expects to expand it greatly in the next few months, Newsweek reported.
"Should be two miles long in three or four months and hopefully stretch the whole 405 N-S corridor from (Los Angeles International Airport) to the (U.S. Route) 101 in a year or so," Musk said in a Twitter post Saturday.
Last December, Musk bemoaned the traffic in Los Angeles and said he planned to start a boring company in an attempt to alleviate the area's persistent traffic problems.
Musk's boring ideas has already spread to the East Coast. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Maryland's Department of Transportation has given conditional approval to the construction of a tunnel from Baltimore to Washington for Musk's super-high-speed transportation system.
That project will start near Fort Meade, in Anne Arundel County with 10 miles of tunnel under the state-owned portion of Maryland 295, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Maryland officials told the Post.
Michael Manville, who studies urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Wired magazine, though, that Musk will face more digging challenges once he gets beyond his own Southern California property.
"Our recent experience with tunnels in the U.S. is that neighbors worry, you run up against various environmental laws, and you just never know what’s underneath the Earth," Manville told Wired.
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