Tesla designer Elon Musk speaks at the unveiling event by “The Boring Company” for the test tunnel of a proposed underground transportation network across Los Angeles County, in Hawthorne, California, December 18, 2018.
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Elon Musk, founder of tunnelling enterprise Boring Company, said in a tweet that a commercial Chunnel in Las Vegas would “hopefully” be fully operational in 2020.
“Boring Co is completing its first commercial tunnel in Vegas, going from Tradition Center to Strip, then will work on other projects,” Musk tweeted late on Friday, in reply to a operator’s question about the company’s tunnels.
Musk, who also leads electric-car maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, has been seeking to revolutionize transportation by sending voyagers packed into pods through an intercity system of giant, underground vacuum tubes known as a hyperloop.
The establishment has completed its project Test Tunnel, located in Hawthorne, California, and other ongoing projects include the Chicago Definite Loop and the East Coast Loop from Washington D.C. to Baltimore.
In April the U.S. Transportation Department issued a draft environmental assessment for a Washington, D.C.- Baltimore tunnel, the word go step in a governmental review of the project from Boring Co.
In July, Boring Company raised about $117 million in a disc-like of funding from 20 unnamed investors after offering to sell about $120 million in equity.
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