Elon Musk's Boring Company Has Been Tunnelling Under People's Homes Without Their Permission

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https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-s-boring-co-is-burrowing-under-people-s-home-without-their-permission?fbclid=IwAR3tnxddBBiJsHGtR6am33loJXaNWEFFyQh5jomtmoeWM9TmERFexLlZZQ4

Elon Musk hates traffic. He hates it so much that he founded the Boring Company to dig underground passageways you can travel through to avoid it.

In Hawthorne, Los Angeles, Musk's Boring Company has been hard at work digging a tunnel 40 feet (12.2 metres) underground.


And, perhaps because Hawthorne is a low-income part of Los Angeles County, The Atlantic reports that the Boring Company has been able to do so without involving or even officially informing the local community.

Musk, who's drawn comparisons to fictional superhero Tony Stark, got special permission from the LA City Council to circumvent many typical environmental regulations and assessments.

As The Outline reported in May, LA County gave the Boring Company permission to rely solely on its own environmental studies.

Additionally, the county approved its tunnels in small parts - by breaking up the approval process, each tunnel segment became an individual, smaller-scale project subject to looser environmental laws.

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1. Typical. The rich stick it to the population with no clout. Just like DAPL.

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[whathehell]

5. Yep.. Similar thing happened to a family member in a hospital. n/t.

[jberryhill]

2. Why would someone need a homeowner's permission to bore 40 feet below their property?

It's not as if land in urban areas comes with the mineral rights.

[genxlib]

3. That is going to be a legal disaster

Especially if they get any sound or vibration from the project.

[pecosbob]

4. Pretty common in the drilling undustry

They can drill under your property, ruin your groundwater and put hazardous retaining ponds yards from your property leaving you without any recourse.

[Small-Axe]

6. The tunnel is almost done.

It will be opening very shortly for the public to check it out.

People above were completely unaware of the boring (no vibrations) and there has been no outrage.

Instead, a low-income area will be the first place that has access to a traffic relieving tunnel.

[dameatball]

7. So eventually the passageway becomes popular as a relief from traffic above. Now we get to sit in a

traffic jam 40 feet underground, probably with fewer exit routes and a nice bout of claustrophobia. . No thanks.

I'm still waiting for my Jetson's flying car.

Get off my lawn!