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Remember Elon Musk’s proposal to build a “Hyperloop” that would allow commuters to travel between DC and Baltimore in 15 minutes? It appears to be dead, at least for now.
Musk’s tunneling firm the Boring Company no longer includes mention on its website of the high-speed transit project, as Bloomberg first reported on Thursday. The scrubbing indicates the underground system is likely no more, crushing our dreams of swift travel between the regional metropolises.
The billionaire Tesla CEO first announced his intent to build a Hyperloop connecting DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York on Twitter in July 2017, boasting that it would get travelers from New York to DC in 29 minutes. Nearly two years later, the Boring Company proposed dual 35-mile-long tunnels connecting a Loop station near Union Market and another near Camden Yards. Autonomous Electric Vehicles would shuttle passengers between the cities at 150 miles per