29 Minutes From New York to Washington? Elon Musk Teases a New Hyperloop<br />By CHRISTINE HAUSERJULY 20, 2017<br />With a tweet and very little else by way of detail, the entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday raised the prospect of<br />speedy, hassle-free travel along the busy section of the Eastern Seaboard between New York and Washington, D. C.<br />Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop.<br />The Department of Transportation referred a query about the project to the White House, which said in an emailed reply through a spokesman: “We have had promising conversations to date, are committed to transformative infrastructure projects<br />and believe our greatest solutions have often come from the ingenuity and drive of the private sector.”<br />In his replies, Mr. Musk let slip a few more thoughts.<br />Mr. Musk’s tweet was enticing enough, even without details, that it prompted a bombardment of follow-up questions and a great deal of skepticism.<br />“City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit elevators in each city,” he wrote<br />It takes New Yorkers longer than that just to travel from one end of Manhattan to the other by subway.<br />https://t.co/5wY0s7RxSO<br />Nor was there any indication of just who in the government had given the plan the “verbal” green light.
