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Good question, I imagine because you need the big city, the traffic volume, and potential users to justify the cost of doing such a big project.

• erikig 8y ago
  The Boring Co isn’t giving up on LA entirely. This was just one test tunnel. They have already succeeded on their other 2 mile test tunnel (Dodger Stadium) and are working to extend that.
  • SECProto 8y ago
    Minor nitpick: the 2 mile test tunnel is in Hawthorne (starts at spacex HQ, goes under W 120th). And they stopped it a bit early (possibly because they planned or predicted that this extended route wasnt gonna happen, but that's speculative). Dodger Stadium is their next plan in LA but they haven't started it yet.
  • carlivar 8y ago
    The tunnel initial capacity will be 1400 people per day and maybe 2800 later. This is 3% of average game attendance. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodger-stadium-tunnel-20180815-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodger-stadium-...
    • xkjkls 8y ago
      https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1034456203890372609?lang=en https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1034456203890372609?lan... This was a great Twitter thread on the public interest in a LA tunnel
    • gamblor956 8y ago
      Importantly, that 1400 people is per day, as in...the entire day. A single bus can take 50-60 people in 30-40 minutes (roundtrip), so a dozen buses could transport more people to the game in an hour than the Elontunnel in an entire day. Metro runs between 12 and 24 shuttle buses to Dodgers games (based on anticipated attendance) starting about 2 hours before to about an hour after the game ends, for a theoretical capacity of 3600 people on the low end and 17,000 on the high end over the course of the game.