“If you build a smaller tunnel, OK, it’ll be cheaper, but it can carry less water. So what have you saved?”
County engineers studied the problem and recommended 30 to 40 foot tunnels. The Boring Company can only build 12 foot tunnels. So Rep. Wesley Hunt’s office lobbied officials to study a “pilot program” that just happens to match exactly what Musk can deliver. Classic corruption in plain sight. The project solves the wrong problem at the wrong scale but gets the congressman a photo op with the world’s richest man.