Elon Musk announced the existence of The Boring Company in December 2016. By February 2017, the company had begun digging a 30-foot-wide (9 m), 50-foot-long (15 m), and 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) testing trench on the premises of SpaceX's offices in Hawthorne, California, since construction on its site would not require any permits.
When told by employees on a Friday afternoon that it would take at least two weeks to move staff cars in the parking lot and start digging the first hole with the Boring Company tunneling machine, Musk said "Let's get started today and see what's the biggest hole we can dig between now and Sunday afternoon, running 24 hours a day." Later that day, the cars were gone and there was a hole in the ground.
On Thursday evening, LA’s Metro said in a statement that it had agreed to a “partnership” with the Musk venture. Metro did not respond to WIRED’s requests for clarification Thursday evening.
The final question Musk faced concerned whether he’d celebrate when the Boring Company’s system launches. “Of course,” he said. “I think a party in a tunnel would be kind of fun."
Then he left the stage to a standing ovation, cheered on by a roomful of people just waiting for him go and build the thing.
Elon Musk announced Sunday that the first tunnel of a proposed underground transportation network across Los Angeles County would open Dec. 10.
“The first tunnel is almost done,” Musk wrote to his 23.1 million followers shortly after 5 p.m.
Musk’s Boring Co. is building the tunnel beneath the city of Hawthorne, part of his grand vision for a transportation network that whisks commuters across the county.
The company has said its technology could move drivers, as well as pods carrying passengers and bicyclists, through tunnels at speeds of up to 130 mph.
A video simulation released by the company last year shows a driver steering onto a car-sized platform on the street, parallel to the curb. The platform, called a skate, sinks like an elevator, then carries the car through the tunnel. You have read Elon Musk says first tunnel for proposed underground transportation network will open in December
