Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock
Light rail solves urban congestion, too, and a city that doesn&#x27;t already have a subway isn&#x27;t all that likely also to be so densely involute that rights of way can&#x27;t be secured for the trackage. Elevated electric trams are a thing, too, and require a much smaller ground footprint.<p>Not that I don&#x27;t get what he&#x27;s saying, and I do get that existing and well proven systems aren&#x27;t sexy, but I feel like either of those is going to be an easier sell, and a much faster implementation, than an underground system. There&#x27;s infrastructure down there! That&#x27;s what &quot;infra&quot; <i>means</i>. Easier not to have to work around that, if you can.