re: Elon Musks boring company wants to build a loop tunnel in New Orleans

Not sure if you actually excavate or just compact to put a tunnel through.

Going to be a bitch when they find out the corps won't let them work 6 months out of the year.

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Elon Musks boring company wants to build a SOUP tunnel in New Orleans

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FIFY

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Cost of the project will double after corrupt NOLA politicians get their hands in it

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Bit of a low estimate, huh? lol

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Going to be a bitch when they find out the corps won't let them work 6 months out of the year.

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When the Mississippi River at the Carrollton Gage reaches 11 feet and rising, subsurface work within 1,500 feet of MR&T levees is prohibited unless waived jointly by the Corps and levee authority. When the river exceeds 15 feet, all waivers are suspended.

Most of what they describe is more than 1500 ft from the river, but you are right that 1500 ft from river is roughly S. Peters and they're talking about Julia and Convention Center Blvd., which could be a problem. If they go far enough down though, they could maybe get into more sands and top of pleistocene which might not be too too bad like the top layers of silt and organic soup. Cool presentation on Nola geology

Aren't there like 60-80' pilings all up under the CBD?

Or did we stop driving pilings in the NOLA swampy terrain?

It will have its own police dept with a shite ton of cameras as well sending out fines the tunnel patrol dont catch.

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Can you imagine the cluster F the cbd would be (for years) during build of said tunnel?

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Isn't the whole point to bore underneath to create the tunnel without disturbing what's on the surface?

In the other cities where this is built, here is what happens

1. People have to wait 30 minutes just for the Tesla to pick them up.

2. The drive itself is short, like 3 minutes or so. Like in New Orleans, these tunnels are built over short distances (like 1-2 miles) that can take up to 30 minutes to travel above ground due to the traffic.


However, remember that you had to wait 30 minutes to get the Tesla in the first place. So it actually doesn’t save you any time.


3. The only reason why the drive itself is so quick is because nobody takes the tunnel.


If people actually took the tunnels, the tunnels would take even longer to go through than the above ground traffic, because the tunnels have 1 lane while the above ground traffic has 4-6 lanes.

So, ironically, if the tunnels were actually a success in the sense that people actually took the tunnels, it would result in a scenario where people waited 30 minutes for a Tesla to pick them up, and then take a 45 minute long drive through the tunnel. All to cover a distance that it takes 30 minutes to cover above ground.

A city below sea level that always floods? What could possibly go wrong?

On top of the other things I said in my last post, the tunnel seems like a bizarre safety hazard to me.

Like just looking at the films, it seems like there would be a rather high chance of the Tesla crashing into one of those ridiculously narrow walls.


And once you crash into the wall, I’m not sure who’s going to save you. An ambulance would not be able to fit inside that tunnel. I’m not even sure if a police car could fit inside the tunnel. Those tunnels are barely big enough to fit a Tesla.