Elon Musk wants to build the Bay area another BART Tunnel for a 10th of the cost in a fifth of the time. Will politicians offer him the project? (With His Can do Attitude,They Should.)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his Boring Co. could build a new BART Transbay tunnel between San Francisco and East Bay for one 10th of the cost - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he could build the Bay Area a second BART tunnel connecting the East Bay and San Francisco in a fifth of the time and for a 10th of the cost of current projects. Local regulators and Bay Area commuters have long coveted a second Transbay tunnel to unclog some of the region's congestion.

From article, (Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he could build the Bay Area a second BART tunnel connecting the East Bay and San Francisco in a fifth of the time and for a 10th of the cost of current projects.

Local regulators and Bay Area commuters have long coveted a second Transbay tunnel to unclog some of the region's congestion. But a new tunnel would cost as much as $15 billion, and would need to be paid for by a mixture of state, local and taxpayer funding, and likely wouldn't be ready until 2030.

Musk tweeted this week that The Boring Co., a side company he operates in addition to Palo Alto-based carmaker Tesla, Inc. and his space exploration company SpaceX, could get the tunnel done faster and far more cheaply than the figures he's seen quoted so far.

Musk knows a thing or two about tunnels — he's been floating the idea of building a massive network in Los Angeles to get around that city's gridlock.

His remark was prompted by a San Francisco Chronicle editorial favoring a second Transbay tunnel.)

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