The Boring Company Receives Permit to Dig in D.C.

The Boring Company continues to piece together permits to make its Washington D.C. to New York Hyperloop plan a reality.

The latest is approval for preparation and preliminary excavation of a site within D.C. at 53 New York Avenue NE, next to a McDonald’s and near the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to The Washington Post.

Elon Musk said over the summer that he had received verbal government approval to build a tunnel for his planned high-speed, underground transportation system. It seems there’s no formal agreement, but the White House has reportedly been warm to Musk’s plans.

A Boring Company spokesman told The Washington Post that “a New York Avenue location, if constructed, could become a station” in a broad network of such stops across the new system.

Musk recently received a conditional permit to start digging in Hawthorne, Maryland for a 10.3 mile route. That effort would be part of the D.C. to Baltimore leg to be built first. Eventually, the tunnel would connect New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C.

Musk has said the entire New York to D.C. trip will take 29 minutes.

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