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Elon Musk pitches 10-minute tunnel ride from Dodger Stadium to LAX

Musk pledged his tunneling venture, to be built well below the city's utilities and existing metro lines using electronic boring equipment, would be virtually noiseless

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Elon Musk. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Edvard Pettersson & Sarah McBride | Bloomberg
Elon Musk brought his vision of a high-speed transportation system underneath traffic-clogged Los Angeles (LA) to a supportive crowd at a hearing for local residents.

Musk’s Boring network, if and when it gets built, would ferry passengers from Dodger Stadium near downtown LA to Los Angeles International Airport in 10 minutes, according to the presentation Musk made Thursday evening at the Leo Baeck Temple. The trip now can easily take more than an hour by car. A 2.7-mile (4.3-kilometre) test tunnel Musk proposes to build ran into headwinds from neighbourhood organisations after a city council committee voted to let Boring go

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