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Elon Musk wants to speed up tunneling by 10 times...

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As with space launches, tunnels are often funded through cost-plus government contracts, in which the contractor assumes no risk for cost overruns, which tend to be enormous as a result. Famously, Boston's Big Dig, which moved a section of Interstate 93 underground, was delayed by roughly eight years and cost $12 billion more than originally planned, but all tunnels tend to be wildly expensive. In L.A., plans to extend the subway's Purple Line by 2.6 miles will cost more than $2.4 billion and take almost 10 years. "It's basically a billion dollars a mile," Musk says. "That's crazy."

Musk wouldn't comment on Trump, but a person close to him says that while the Boring Company would be open to building tunnels as part of Trump's infrastructure plan, it intends to move forward regardless of what happens in Washington.


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