Elon Musk’s Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground “people mover”

> Details of the 35.3-mile system, which emerged recently in a 505-page draft environmental assessment, reveals a design that fails to meet several key national safety standards. The underground system appears to lack sufficient emergency exits, ignore the latest engineering practices and proposes passenger escape ladders that one fire safety professor calls “the definition of insanity.”

it's just an underground tram. it has 3 stops in a mile. there is no way (and no benefit) that the tunnel is evacuated, hyperloop-style, at those short distances.

which makes sense given the cost. which even at $50MM I very much doubt they can do it that cheap. the stations or other parts of it must be paid for in another budget.