Washington, DC, gave the Boring Company Ilona Mask permission to conduct preparatory and excavation work on the parking lot at the National Mall. According to the company representatives, the Hyperloop high-speed train station may appear here. The resolution the Washington Post writes is part of the city's Department of Transportation's plan that is exploring the possibility of creating a subterranean network of Hyperloop tunnels-for the time being, the theoretical idea is to use vacuum and trains on a magnetic cushion to transport passengers at a speed of about 1000 km / h. "A plot on New York Avenue can become a station" in the transport network, a company spokesman said.. Last year, The Boring Company demonstrated a modified version of Hyperloop - moving cars on a sleigh with magnetic levitation. At the end of 2017, the Governor of the State of Maryland, Larry Hogan, confirmed that he was cooperating with the company in building the "fast electric transport line between Baltimore and Washington". Recall, initially, when Mask together with NASA engineers developed the concept of transport vacuum network Hyperloop, he was not going to embody his own idea. Instead, several start-ups took up the implementation of the plan, in particular, Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

But last summer, Musk began to negotiate with the authorities about the construction of a tunnel between Washington and New York and decided not to hire contractors, but to do everything alone. It is not clear how the Boring Company hopes to finance its project - sales of caps and flamethrowers are barely able to cover costs, Fortune writes. Some skeptics also argue that elektrosanya will not be able to cope with the traffic flow and will not solve the problem of traffic jams that once prompted the Mask to start digging underground tunnels.

Original article: The mask was allowed to build a Hyperloop station in Washington.