Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Preliminary Permit for NYC-DC Hyperloop

It is both wet and generally fine for tunneling. The D.C. metro (subway) is almost entirely underground within D.C. city limits (though it runs mostly above ground outside of the city) and basements and extensive underground parking garages are the norm (some going very deep).

The region being looked at is the Atlantic Coastal Plain and a little of the Atlantic Piedmont Plateau. Below the wet marshy bits it's mostly sedimentary prelithified and lithified rock in the coastal plain area and a complex geology in the Piedmont area. The Piedmont area used to be the base of an ancient mountain range that's since eroded away while the Coastal Plain used to be entirely underwater at some period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_coastal_plain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_(United_States)

>Asked about the permit, issued Nov. 29, a Boring Company spokesman said Friday that “a New York Avenue location, if constructed, could become a station” in a broad network of such stops across the new system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dc-...

That's a few blocks from a Metro stop, but really a terrible place for any kind of real foot traffic. That's near a high-traffic intersection [1] that can be difficult to navigate by car and very slow to navigate by foot.

It's also near a lot of new construction (like most of DC) geared mostly towards young, rich professionals (like most of new DC).

[1] The intersection was changed a few years ago from insanely dangerous to safe but very indirect when trying to make certain transitions.

That's the joke.

> Their work actually sounds pretty exciting to me.

Why? They are nothing more than a off-the-shelf boring machine that was never used and a marketing department dedicated to fabricate hype.