Tesla Giga Austin tunnel to downtown Austin, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

[TruckElectric]

Elon Musk’s Boring Company exploring underground tunnel to downtown Austin, airport

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s The Boring Company recently met with the city of Austin to discuss a potential underground transportation tunnel from the Tesla Gigafactory to downtown Austin.

The city’s Development Services Department says the company provided them a high-level introduction of the proposed tunnel and sought to better understand permitting requirements. DSD confirmed the proposed tunnel would also run through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
A city spokesperson could not provide further details.

The Boring Company has not responded to multiple emails and phone calls about the proposal in the last two weeks.

The company has grabbed global headlines for its unique approach to digging massive tunnels for transportation and shipping. It opened an underground tunnel in Las Vegas earlier this year. The 1.7-mile Vegas tunnel transports visitors through the city’s Convention Center.

The Gigafactory, located in southeastern Travis County, is expected to be Tesla’s largest auto assembly plant. Construction began last year, as Musk continues to zero in on the Lone Star State for expansion.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aus...nderground-tunnel-to-downtown-austin-airport/

 

[TruckElectric]

Fly into Austin, take tunnel to Giga Austin and p/u your Cybertruck and drive home!

 

[TruckElectric]

Also San Antonio


Elon Musk's Boring Company is considering building huge tunnels in the Texan cities of Austin and San Antonio, reports say
Kevin Shalvey
Sat, August 7, 2021, 5:50 AM

The Boring Company founder Elon Musk in 2018. Robyn Beck/Pool via Reuters

• Elon Musk's The Boring Company is said to be in talks with two Texas cities.
• San Antonio and Austin officials have discussed projects, The San Antonio Express-News reported.
• The company last month submitted plans for a Fort Lauderdale project, similar to its Las Vegas loop.

Elon Musk's The Boring Company has been in talks with officials in San Antonio and Austin about digging local tunnels, The San Antonio Express-News reported on Friday.

San Antonio city agencies have discussed digging a 10-mile loop between the city's downtown and San Antonio International Airport, among other routes, the report said, citing unnamed sources. It was unclear what the path for the Austin tunnel would be.

A new tunnel in Texas would mark the latest in a handful of high-profile municipal partnerships for the company, which was founded in 2016.

The company's Las Vegas underground transport opened in June. The 1.7-mile loop under the Las Vegas Convention Center has three stops. The company said it cost about $47 million to build. Las Vegas city councilors also approved an expansion into downtown, with plans to connect to McCarran International Airport.

And the company last month submitted plans to officials in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a tunnel expected to cost at least $30 million. Musk's company had courted local officials in Florida for months.

In San Antonio, discussions were said to have been ongoing for at least two months.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-boring-company-considering-105058702.html

 

[John K]

Permit requirements in Texas?

Oxymoron?

 

[TruckElectric]

Permit requirements in Texas?

Oxymoron?

Drill baby, drill!!!!!

Or... Bore baby, Bore!!!!!

 

[TruckElectric]

The Boring machine should rip through the Texas chalk like nothing!!!!

 

[John K]

I can think of three reasons for the tunnel.

1. Elon Musk hates traffic
2. Smugglers route for Texans to pick up their orders
3. Bond villains just cannot resist drilling tunnels

 

[Crissa]

Fly into Austin, take tunnel to Giga Austin and p/u your Cybertruck and drive home!

Fly into Austin and your Cybertruck uses the tunnel to pick you up from the airport...

-Crissa

 

[TruckElectric]

1. Elon Musk hates traffic

Who doesn't? Do you love traffic?

 

[John K]

Who doesn't? Do you love traffic?

?
I lack the resources to tunnel under the 405 freeway.

 

[Crissa]

Who doesn't? Do you love traffic?

In a car with traffic-sensing speed control? I don't care as much.

Without that I would rather drive all night than be in traffic.

-Crissa

 

[Sirfun]

There has to be more tunnels in the planning. Because if those 2 are it. Everything revolves around Giga Texas. No tunnel between Downtown and the Airport?

 

[John K]

I need FSD to play chicken in stop and go traffic while yelling on the external speaker.

”Make room, I don’t have paint to worry about while your darks paint is weak, my SS exoskeleton will crush your aluminum.“

”Kill authorization approved.” activate Red warning lights

 

[Sirfun]

I need FSD to play chicken in stop and go traffic while yelling on the external speaker.

”Make room, I don’t have paint to worry about while your darks paint is weak, my SS exoskeleton will crush your aluminum.“

”Kill authorization approved.” activate Red warning lights

MOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!!! Don't cha just love the morons in the carpool lane driving 65 with nobody in front of them?

 

[TruckElectric]

There has to be more tunnels in the planning. Because if those 2 are it. Everything revolves around Giga Texas. No tunnel between Downtown and the Airport?

It may be just one tunnel or linked tunnels, not sure.