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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 20 October 2017 - 03:18 PM

The Washington Post,​ 10/19/17:

Elon Musk’s East Coast Hyperloop will launch digging in Maryland, state and company say

 

 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan ® – taking a cue from the big splash, low information PR strategy of Elon Musk – tweeted Thursday that Musk’s Boring Company is going to build a Hyperloop tunnel from Baltimore to Washington.

 

“So, get ready,” Hogan said in a rough video after adjusting his shades.

 


Get hyped. pic.twitter.com/gPRTQWnICi

— Larry Hogan (@LarryHogan) October 19, 2017

 

Hogan said in another tweet that his administration is proud “to support The Boring Company to bring rapid electric transportation to MD – connecting Baltimore City to D.C.”

 

The first of the digging will take place in Maryland, a Hogan aide said.

 

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Posted 22 October 2017 - 05:33 AM

WTOP radio 10/21/17:
 

Prince George’s Co. leaders vow to derail plans for high-speed train

 

Local leaders are vowing to "to drive a stake in the heart," of a high-speed train that would take travelers from D.C. to Baltimore in about 15 minutes.

 

 

WASHINGTON — Members of the Prince George’s County legislative delegation are vowing to kill the controversial maglev train before the high-speed, levitating transit system can even get off the ground.

 

WASHINGTON — Members of the Prince George’s County legislative delegation are vowing to kill the controversial maglev train before the high-speed, levitating transit system can even get off the ground.

 

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“Our position is to drive a stake in the heart of this thing and leave it as a zombie,” Bowie Mayor Fred Robinson said last weekend.

 

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Posted 23 October 2017 - 07:02 AM

The Washington Post, ​10/20/17:

Tunnel for Elon Musk’s East Coast Hyperloop promised in Maryland

 

 

Maryland’s Department of Transportation has given conditional approval to the construction of a tunnel from Baltimore to Washington, giving a boost — or hype, depending on the viewpoint — to entrepreneur Elon Musk’s plan to build a super-high-speed transportation system.

 

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Transportation experts and engineers were left weighing what one U.S. official termed the “visionary/charlatan ratio” when it comes to Musk and his latest grand plan. Is it the beginning of something brilliant — or brilliant marketing hype?

 

 

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Posted 22 February 2018 - 10:49 AM

TechCrunch.com, 2/19/18:
 

Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets preliminary permit for NYC-DC Hyperloop

 

 

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A 29-minute trip from D.C. to New York may seem too good to be true. And it very well may be. But that isn’t stopping Elon Musk from pushing forward with plans to build a Hyperloop along the eastern corridor.

 

And while it’s a very small, very vague step forward, Musk’s Boring Company has received a permit for preparation and preliminary excavation of a site in the nation’s capital. The exact location is 53 New York Avenue NE, next to a McDonald’s and near the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to The Washington Post.

 

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Posted 31 March 2018 - 10:55 AM

The Baltimore Sun, 3/29/18:
 

Federal lawmakers question Maryland Gov. Hogan on Hyperloop permit

 

 

Five members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are pressing Gov. Larry Hogan to provide more information about the high-speed transit system called Hyperloop that entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to build between Baltimore and Washington.

 

Maryland officials in October granted permission for Musk’s company, The Boring Co., to dig tunnels under the Baltimore-Washington Parkway even as fundamental questions remain about federal and local oversight of the multibillion-dollar project.

 

“While the Hyperloop is an exciting project that has the potential to transform transportation along the entire U.S. East Coast, it is also a project that would utilize a wholly new technology and could have significant impacts on our constituents,” the lawmakers — all Democrats — wrote in their letter.

 

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Posted 19 April 2019 - 09:08 AM

The Washington Post, 4/18/19:

Elon Musk’s latest plan: Two 35-mile tunnels from D.C. to Baltimore

 

An environmental assessment considers noise and other impacts but casts them as limited.

 

 

Elon Musk made a splash almost two years ago when he declared he had “verbal govt approval” to build an underground “Hyperloop” project that would get people from Washington to New York City in 29 minutes, cutting through Baltimore and Philadelphia along the way.

 

Hyperloop passengers would shoot through vacuum tubes in pods traveling more than 600 miles per hour, according to Musk’s tunneling venture, the Boring Company.

 

But the electric-car pioneer’s latest take on that plan, detailed late Wednesday in a report considering environmental impacts, is to build two 35-mile tunnels from Washington to Baltimore that would carry autonomous Teslas or their corporate cousins at 150 miles per hour, on rubber tires, getting from city to city in about 15 minutes.

 






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