Elon Musk's The Boring Company scrubbed any mention of its LA and DC tunnels from its website, leaving the future of those projects in doubt
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Grace Kay
Apr 16, 2021, 21:21 IST
Associated Press
The Boring Company removed its LA and DC project plans from its site.
The plan for a tunnel to LA's Dodgers Stadium was announced in 2017 and the DC plan in 2018.
The company might not be able to build the hyperloops because of environmental regulations.
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The Boring Company removed any mention of its plans to build transit tunnels in Los Angeles and Washington DC from its website in April.
Bloomberg first reported the projects had been removed from the site on Thursday and Insider was able to confirm. The removal of any mention of the two tunnels from the projects section of The Boring Company site is a sign both projects - which were announced several years ago - might not come to fruition.
Dena Belzer, president of consultancy Strategic Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, told Bloomberg the projects could likely be declared "dead" since they are facing environmental regulations.
In order to move forward with the project, the company would have to receive confirmation from the Federal Highway Administration that the tunnels would not have an detrimental environmental impact or face a further review of the potential impact, Bloomberg reported.
The two projects are some of many The Boring Company plans that have either stalled or been cancelled altogether. In 2018, Musk's plans for a tunnel in Chicago were cancelled when it lost the support of the city's mayor, while the LA plans and tunnel between Maryland and DC had both already been scaled back from the company's initial ideas.
A The Boring Company spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment from Insider. City officials from LA and DC also did not respond to a request from comment. As of Friday, The Boring Company's site only features information about its projects in Las Vegas and Hawthorne, California.
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