LOS ANGELES: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk made a brief public appearance late on Tuesday to unveil the first tunnel completed by the underground transit venture he launched two years ago as an ambitious remedy to Los Angeles' infamously heavy traffic. The new tunnel was excavated along a path that runs not through Los Angeles but beneath the tiny adjacent municipality of Hawthorne, where Musk's Boring Company and his SpaceX rocket firm are both headquartered. Musk created a stir earlier this year by promising free trips through the tunnel once it opened. Last month, the Boring Company scrapped plans for a 2.7-mile segment under a West Los Angeles neighborhood, settling litigation brought by community groups opposed to that project. In June, Boring was selected by Chicago to build a 17-mile underground transit system linking that city's downtown to its main airport.

Source: The Star December 19, 2018 05:48 UTC