Citizens who live, work and have business dealings in major cities along the North Eastern region of the U.S. may soon get to take advantage of a means of transportation that will bring them closer to teleporting than anything they've experienced in their lifetime. Tech innovator/entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he has received the green light to bring Hyperloop technology to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C. Construction of such a system bears the potential of getting passengers and cargo from one province to the next, in a shorter time than it presently takes for local commuters to travel from one neighborhood to the next in the same city.
"Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins," Musk tweeted on Thursday, July 20. "Still a lot of work needed to receive formal approval, but am optimistic that will occur rapidly." He went on to respond to a follower's inquiry intimating that L.A. is projected to receive a Hyperloop before building begins in the New York to D.C. region. Developers would then return to the West Coast to connect L.A. and San Francisco, before heading down south to build a Texas loop.
At the moment it takes about two hours and forty-five minutes to get from NY to DC by train while a drive between cities can take up to five hours. With the help of Musk's Boring Company, underground tunnels would be dug along the Eastern Seaboard in order to accommodate tubing that would essentially suck a gliding pod across its distance. The technology is described to work like a vacuum capable of generating speeds of up to 760 miles per hour.
It was not immediately clear what governmental entity Musk was speaking of, as confirmation of talks has not been acknowledged by elected officials of any of the mentioned municipalities. However, the White House did issue a statement via the Department of Transportation which read, “We have had promising conversations to date, are committed to transformative infrastructure projects and believe our greatest solutions have often come from the ingenuity and drive of the private sector.”
Source: NBC New York
