29 Minutes From New York to Washington? Elon Musk Teases a New Hyperloop
By CHRISTINE HAUSERJULY 20, 2017
With a tweet and very little else by way of detail, the entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday raised the prospect of
speedy, hassle-free travel along the busy section of the Eastern Seaboard between New York and Washington, D. C.
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop.
The Department of Transportation referred a query about the project to the White House, which said in an emailed reply through a spokesman: “We have had promising conversations to date, are committed to transformative infrastructure projects
and believe our greatest solutions have often come from the ingenuity and drive of the private sector.”
In his replies, Mr. Musk let slip a few more thoughts.
Mr. Musk’s tweet was enticing enough, even without details, that it prompted a bombardment of follow-up questions and a great deal of skepticism.
“City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit elevators in each city,” he wrote
It takes New Yorkers longer than that just to travel from one end of Manhattan to the other by subway.
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Nor was there any indication of just who in the government had given the plan the “verbal” green light.
