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Across the United States, Elon Musk’s Boring Company shows up to pitch transport projects far below the cost of competitors. Local officials get excited and pursue them, for cost savings and to associate with Musk. In Ontario, CA, officials said, “it’s the Boring Company, so Elon Musk brings that kind of sexiness to it.”

But when it comes time for the Boring Company to deliver, it conveniently disappears.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out
Ted Mann (The Wall Street Journal)
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Paris Marx
Paris Marx  
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The Boring Company’s actions show Elon Musk isn’t ushering in a transport revolution; he’s stifling any hope of one. We need to wake up if we’re to ever build a better transport system.

In the same way that the Hyperloop’s purpose was to get California’s high-speed rail line canceled, the Boring Company is distracting from train and transit projects that aren’t as “sexy”, but could make a real difference.

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He has a history of floating false solutions to the drawbacks of our over-reliance on cars that stifle efforts to give people other options. The Boring Company was supposed to solve traffic, not be the Las Vegas amusement ride it is now. As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.
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Paris Marx
Paris Marx  
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The myth of Elon Musk as a genius building a better future for everyone is falling apart — and it’s about time!

As I wrote in Time a few months ago, we need to realize he hasn’t just taken a bad turn in the past few months. He’s always been selling us a lie, and nothing shows that better than his fake transport projects that distracted from real solutions.

His downfall can’t come soon enough.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

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Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

Elon Musk became the figure everyone was looking for, but there were holes in his visions for the future.
Paris Marx (Time)
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