And the grift goes on.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
Submitted 3 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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Archangel1313@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Still moving strong, on and on
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
So what you’re saying is they’re going to block public transportation?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Here’s how it will go:
- The Boring Company aquires Amtrak.
- 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”.
- The melting down of rails, etc., begins way before the deadline.
- Elon Musk announces alternative in the form of self-driving cars, donates a few Teslas for charity.
lorski@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ask Chicago how well that went. Ban Elon.
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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!
BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“If trump loses, im fucked…”
~elon musk 6 months ago
Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Bad idea, blatant conflict of interest.
mercano@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking embarrassing…
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AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
like, i get it that this is horrible corrupt bullshit, but… i kinda want the public transit expansion this may offer.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it sucks because i can feel this already. i just want some viable public transit :(
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Don’t let Musk or his companies anywhere near these projects. He and his team are experts at turning actual infrastructure into vaporware.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Expensive vaporware
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Musk is the president, he gets any contract he wants.