Elon Musk insists on building a massive 6.2-mile underground tunnel for the ferry Tesla vehicles and their passengers in the congested North Miami Beach area.
Musk’s Boring Company is currently considering Hard Rock Stadium and Florida The campus of the International University of Biscayne as the host of the proposed transit tunnel, which will pass under Miami-Dade, according to Miami Herald.
The tunnel, which would initially see Tesla vehicles carrying up to 7,500 passengers per hour with a possible target of up to 15,000 per hour, will have drivers passing under State Road 826 East from Northwest 2nd Avenue to Northeast 35th Avenue. .
The rough estimate for the project is between $ 180 million and $ 220 million and is expected to be completed in 36 months, according to Boring.
The loop to Hard Rock will extend an additional three miles, while the FIU-Biscayne spur will last about 1.8 miles.
Pictured: an example of The Boring Company’s transit tunnels, which would allow Tesla vehicles and their passengers to be transported easily in congested areas
The Board of Directors of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has approved a contract with The Boring Company to design and build a double tunnel system for the Las Vegas Convention Center
Tesla electric cars are lined up in front of two one-way tunnels built by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada, USA, April 2021.
Traffic slows to 10 mph creep on State Road 7 in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Elon Musk gestures as he speaks at a press conference at the SpaceX Starbase facility near the village of Boca Chica in South Texas
The idea, which is also being discussed in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, is designed to tackle traffic and congestion.
Critics of the plan only have to look all the way to Las Vegas, where Musk’s Vegas Loop – a 1.7-mile Teslas hand-powered track to drive under the city’s convention center at a top speed of 40 miles per hour – where consumers expressed concerns about the tunnel crash and other safety issues.
A viral video of a traffic jam in a tunnel during CES’s consumer electronics trade in 2022 shows that Musk’s system is far from immune to the stagnation problem.
“The Vegas Loop can’t even handle # CES2022 during a pandemic,” technical blogger Sasha Palenberg tweeted on Thursday.
“Congratulations @CityOfLasVegas, this must be the most modern traffic jam in the world!”
Musk’s tunnel company unveiled a proposal earlier this month on February 1 for North Miami Beach, making it the second of two since Fort Lauderdale’s plans were unveiled in June.
However, not everyone is a fan of the concept, with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez preferring an expanded transit system.
Meanwhile, North Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Joseph says the project will ease congestion while serving as a tourist attraction for the city.
“Why not us?” he said after recently touring the Vegas Loop, calling it “the most up-to-date.”
“We have a lot of development ahead of us, we want to plan ahead. We know that development comes from everywhere.
The next step in the process is to present an interim agreement to city officials on March 15th, according to city manager Chris Lagerblum.
Elon Musk arrives in a modified electric vehicle Tesla Model X during an event to unveil the test tunnel of The Boring Company Hawthorne on December 18, 2018 in Hawthorne, California
Elon Musk shows the first renderings of the Boring Company chain station in Las Vegas, where passengers will board high-speed Teslas without a driver
Pictured: Mux’s 1.7-mile Vegas Loop allows man-made Teslas to travel below the city’s convention center at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour
Pictured: the proposed site for the Fort Lauderdale Tunnel
“This is a very real project,” Lagerblum added.
Details on project funding and feasibility are reportedly still under discussion.
Joseph said city officials are currently working to identify potential sources of funding for the construction of the underground tunnel.
He noted that a significant portion could come from money included in federal infrastructure legislation just signed by President Joseph R. Biden, and government funding is likely to contribute to the project.
“We know they want to invest behind communities that traditionally don’t receive infrastructure funding,” Joseph said. “And we are a community of a majority of a minority.”
“The engineers looked at it and I talked to more underground engineers than I would have ever had before,” Lagerblum said of the tunnel’s feasibility.
“Underground tunneling is accepted around the world as a very applicable solution for vehicles, trains, all types of transport. The fact that we’re in South Florida doesn’t affect whether we can tunnel. It is mainly related to what method and some polymers used to prevent water. But as for whether it is possible: it is very possible.