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Elon Musk Shares Photo Of 500-Foot Tunnel He's Digging Under Los Angeles.

Elon Musk shared the first-ever photo of the Boring Company’s tunnel that runs deep under the streets of Los Angeles.
Musk, who’s also the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, in addition to Boring—his infrastructure and tunnel construction company—took to Twitter to show off the latest development of his much-anticipated plan to build a high-speed transit system, known as Hyperloop. He tweeted that the current tunnel is about 500-feet long, but it’s going to quickly expand.
“Should be 2 miles long in three or four months and hopefully stretch the whole 405 N-S corridor from LAX to the 101 in a year or so,” Musk tweeted Saturday afternoon.

Although Musk says he’s long thought about building tunnels, he didn’t actually start digging until less than a year ago. Last December, while driving along L.A.’s infamous congested highways, Musk decided it was time to get started, according to Bloomberg.
“Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging…” he tweeted on Dec. 17. “I am actually going to do this,” he added, two hours later.


Originally, the entrepreneur began digging underneath his SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. But, in August he got approval from the Hawthorne City Council to start digging a test tunnel off of his company’s property, the Daily Breeze reports.
Los Angeles isn’t the only city with “soul-destroying traffic” that Musk hopes to improve. Ultimately, he plans to provide travel between New York and DC in less than 30 minutes, according to the Boring Company. On Oct. 20, he received conditional approval to start digging on the east coast, The Washington Post reports.
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