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Boring company tunnel should be 17 miles long in a year
- swalsh 9y agoDoes anyone know how the legal rights to dig actually work? It seems like he's moving really fast.... I would have expected the permitting, and rights process would have taken years.
- genzoman 9y agobe billionaire, then dig dug.
- brad0 9y agoI know that the rights came quite quickly. I know the hole starts near one of the Tesla buildings, I believe that would help quite a lot.
- planteen 9y agoA tunnel would be different from subsurface mineral rights. Landowners retain rights below their land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_est_solum,_eius_est_usque_ad_coelum_et_ad_inferos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_est_solum,_eius_est_us... I'm also interested to know if this is in a right-of-way or Musk is buying rights from individual landowners. My guess is right of way.
- erentz 9y ago17 miles in a year? I don’t know about that. But half of that isn’t outside the realms of feasibility using standard technology and process especially with the small diameter of this tunnel (13.5’). The tunneling part is actually not that costly. When we think of big expensive subway projects and the like the major cost component is the stations. Still I hope he shows that vertically integrating the whole project and running continuously can drive down costs. The Spanish have shown similar results in the past (before their economy blew up).
- diggernet 9y agoIs it just me, or are the rails in that tunnel awfully wavy?
- codycraven 9y agoI think at the speed of these bores, there'd be a fortune to make boring from HWY-74 in Lake Elsinore through the Ortega's into San Juan Capistrano. Especially if one were to buy a large number of currently "cheap" properties in Lake Elsinore before the project begins.
- lafar6502 9y agoBut why? Do they know what will be built there? Is this really in line with rhe urban planning?
- ulfw 9y agoHow can you legally bore like crazy? There should be a ton of permissions necessary so you don't bore into exisiting infrastructure.
- lafar6502 9y agoThey kinda pushed and rushed this, it’s not how large-impact projects should be done. Possibly wasteful and inconsiderate, and this public-private partnership smells fishy