Boring company tunnel should be 17 miles long in a year

How can you legally bore like crazy? There should be a ton of permissions necessary so you don't bore into exisiting infrastructure.

17 miles in a year? I don’t know about that. But half of that isn’t outside the realms of feasibility using standard technology and process especially with the small diameter of this tunnel (13.5’).

The tunneling part is actually not that costly. When we think of big expensive subway projects and the like the major cost component is the stations. Still I hope he shows that vertically integrating the whole project and running continuously can drive down costs. The Spanish have shown similar results in the past (before their economy blew up).

Does anyone know how the legal rights to dig actually work? It seems like he's moving really fast.... I would have expected the permitting, and rights process would have taken years.

I think at the speed of these bores, there'd be a fortune to make boring from HWY-74 in Lake Elsinore through the Ortega's into San Juan Capistrano. Especially if one were to buy a large number of currently "cheap" properties in Lake Elsinore before the project begins.

But why? Do they know what will be built there? Is this really in line with rhe urban planning?

Is it just me, or are the rails in that tunnel awfully wavy?