#el train

Near Broadway in Jackson Heights on July 21, 1949, with the elevated Number 7 train in the background.

Brookfield Zoo--By the "L". Chicago. Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1938]

Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. Image of Queensboro Plaza, twice as large as it is today, before unification. Undated. The New York City subway is famously made up of three formerly private railroads; three distinct networks that were planned to be…

Like gee. You want to reduce automobile traffic by building underground tunnels for electric vehicles? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO REDUCE AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC WITH UNDERGROUND TUNNELS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES?????

OH YEAH. A TRAIN. NOT ROAD VEHICLES. Electric trains been around for a hundred and thirty years and nobody at The Boring Company asked why cities use these rather than building extensive underground taxi routes. Or, more likely, somebody did ask why, and Elon Musk had them demoted. 

I think what ticks me off the most is that the vehicles they use unmodified Tesla Model 3′s. Because it makes it obvious that this is just about the tunnel. If you want to use road vehicles to travel directly place to place with no intersections, you can make an expressway with a turnaround at the end.