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 isnt stopping Elon Musk from pushing forward with plans to build a Hyperloop along the eastern corridor.
And while its a very small, very vague step forward, Musks Boring Company has received a permit for preparation and preliminary excavation of a site in the nations capital. The exact location is 53 New York Avenue NE, next to a McDonalds and near the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to The Washington Post.
In July, Elon Musk tweeted that he had received verbal government approval to build a multi-state underground Hyperloop on the East Coast. While such approval doesnt formally exist, Bloomberg confirmed that the White House had had positive conversations with The Boring Company over the proposed tunnel.
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
This latest permit is far from whats required to actually begin building the tunnel which would run from New York to Philadelphia to Baltimore to D.C. but its a start. Musk recently received a conditional permit to start operations in Hawthorne, Maryland for a 10.3 mile route. Maryland officials told WaPo that the tunnel would run under Maryland Route 295, with the D.C.-Baltimore leg being built first.
Decades away at best, but I really want to see this happen in my lifetime. ---