Elon Musk's The Boring Company scrubbed any mention of its LA and DC tunnels from its website, leavi
Original reporting: Elon Musk’s L.A. and Maryland Tunnel Projects Stall Before Digging Starts (Bloomberg)
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Source: Business Insider
Elon Musk's The Boring Company scrubbed any mention of its LA and DC tunnels from its website, leaving the future of those projects in doubt
Grace Kay Apr 16, 2021, 11:25 AM
The Boring Company removed any mention of its plans to build transit tunnels in Los Angeles and Washington DC from its website in April.
Bloomberg first reported the projects had been removed from the site on Thursday and Insider was able to confirm. The removal of any mention of the two tunnels from the projects section of The Boring Company site is a sign both projects — which were announced several years ago — might not come to fruition.
Dena Belzer, president of consultancy Strategic Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, told Bloomberg the projects could likely be declared "dead" since they are facing environmental regulations.
The plans to connect Washington and Baltimore via an underground tunnel called a hyperloop were announced in 2017. The Boring Company bought a piece of land in Washington to start the project, but was faced with a 411-page environmental assessment two years later. That threw a wrench in the East Coast tunnel plans.
In order to move forward with the project, the company would have to receive confirmation from the Federal Highway Administration that the tunnels would not have an detrimental environmental impact or face a further review of the potential impact, Bloomberg reported.
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