They don’t have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They’re being disruptive by ignoring everything we’ve learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you’re limited to the route they dug, which probably isn’t as useful for transporting people instead of cars.
The routes themselves are bad. The tunnels run below already existing state highways. It saves them admin time only having to get approval from the agency that manages the highways, but makes it a poor choice for a transit line.
A conversion could be useful for getting people to the city center from the airport. But any station along the route would be difficult to access, unpleasant to be in, and be of little use to anyone being buried under a highway.
I’m half with you; eminent domain it, but I wouldn’t trust his tunnels with humans in them. Maybe it could be repurposed as a way to redirect flood waters or something. His tunneling ability is right up there with his morality acumen.
Let him build it.
Let the chauffered car thing fail.
Eminent domain the tunnel.
Stick a fucking train in it.
The boring company tunnels are a problem.
They don’t have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They’re being disruptive by ignoring everything we’ve learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you’re limited to the route they dug, which probably isn’t as useful for transporting people instead of cars.
The routes themselves are bad. The tunnels run below already existing state highways. It saves them admin time only having to get approval from the agency that manages the highways, but makes it a poor choice for a transit line.
A conversion could be useful for getting people to the city center from the airport. But any station along the route would be difficult to access, unpleasant to be in, and be of little use to anyone being buried under a highway.
Vegas still has a boring tunnel and it’s going through a lot of lawsuits and 800 environmental violations.
They’re not able to reuse it without investing a billion more to fix his fuck ups.
I’m half with you; eminent domain it, but I wouldn’t trust his tunnels with humans in them. Maybe it could be repurposed as a way to redirect flood waters or something. His tunneling ability is right up there with his morality acumen.