Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t let Musk or his companies anywhere near these projects. He and his team are experts at turning actual infrastructure into vaporware.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    more of biden’s infrastructure bill money to steal… congressionally approved and allocated money. early site prep has already begun, even.

    letting muskrat anywhere near this has great potential to really fuck-up the entire northeast corridor for a decade or two–or longer, for passengers and freight.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Expensive vaporware

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  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, the Vegas loop, as I understand it to be built, would never be allowed by any sane or even rogue/mad civil engineer, and that’s basically just a gussied up go-kart tunnel. No way in fuck they need to be allowed anywhere near train infra.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Musk is the president, he gets any contract he wants.

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• Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the grift goes on.

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  • JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Still moving strong, on and on

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying is they’re going to block public transportation?

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here’s how it will go:

  1. The Boring Company aquires Amtrak.
  2. Elon Musk says: “If we can’t come up with a better technology in X amount of years, we will just dismantle all the rail network and sell it a junk metal”.
  3. The melting down of rails, etc., begins way before the deadline.
  4. Elon Musk announces alternative in the form of self-driving cars, donates a few Teslas for charity.

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• lorski@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ask Chicago how well that went. Ban Elon.

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• BigMacHole@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This would be SUPER CORRUPT if Elon Musk spent a QUARTER BILLION DOLLARS on Trump’s Campaign and was THEN given the Freedom to FIRE LITERALLY ANYONE HE WANTED IN THE GOVERNMENT WHILE GIVING OUT CONTRACTS TO WHOEVER HE WANTED! FORTUNATELY Joe Rogan said this DIDNT happen so FAKE NEWS!

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• BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “If trump loses, im fucked…”

  ~elon musk 6 months ago

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• Penguincoder@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bad idea, blatant conflict of interest.

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• mercano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Specifically, this is on the Fredric Douglas Tunnel project in Baltimore, an attempt to replace an 150 year old tunnel that’s become a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.

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• MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fucking embarrassing…

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• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  like, i get it that this is horrible corrupt bullshit, but… i kinda want the public transit expansion this may offer.

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  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can almost promise you that what dipshit is offering here is something he has no idea about. He’s going to take the money, give us something dangerous and broken that doesn’t even satisfy the minimum requirements of the project, and run off telling everyone what a great success it was because they got it done in two weeks.

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    • AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it sucks because i can feel this already. i just want some viable public transit :(

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