Great place for a tunnel, right there. (Photo: Joe Raedle, Getty Images)
Officials from Fort Lauderdale, Florida formally accepted a proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company on Tuesday to build an underground transit tunnel.
“This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion,” Mayor Dean Trantalis said in a tweet.
I hope everyone there has a submarine to use in this new tunnel because it looks like it is going to be underwater before long. Elon’s tunnel projects haven’t exactly gone well in the past just look at accounts from test rides of the Boring Company’s Los Angeles “hyperloop.” But building one in Fort Lauderdale comes with a whole other set of issues.
Musk s Boring Company bids to build transit tunnel in Florida
07/08/2021 0:33
BERKELEY, California (Reuters) - Elon Musk s tunneling enterprise, Boring Company, has submitted a bid to build an underground transit system between downtown and the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the city s mayor said. This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean J. Trantalis tweeted on Tuesday, adding that other firms have 45 days to submit competing proposals.
Terms of the bid were not disclosed, and Boring Company had no immediate comment. The company retweeted the mayor s tweet.
In June, Boring Company opened its first commercial tunnel project in Las Vegas to transport visitors through the city s Convention Center using human-driven Tesla vehicles.
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Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean J. Trantalis announced that the city formally accepted The Boring Company’s proposal for a transit system called The Las Olas Loop.
“Other firms have 45 days to submit competing proposals,” Mayor Tranalis added in his announcement. “This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion.”
The first commercial underground loop built by The Boring Company is in Las Vegas, where two tunnels 40 feet underground provide a transit system for folks to travel via Tesla beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center.