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Posted on 5/27/26 at 5:29 pm to OscarTheGrouch
quote:then triple once the green light goes through the state capital
Cost of the project will double after corrupt NOLA politicians get their hands in it
Posted on 5/27/26 at 5:29 pm to BayouBandit24
I'm thinking underground gondola rides.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 5:31 pm to Guess
We should have basements too!
Posted on 5/27/26 at 5:43 pm to LSUBoo
I guess we would find out. They can’t even synchronize lights downtown. They’ll find a way to close streets and cause a mess.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 6:16 pm to ptra
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A tunnel can be above ground. Just needs to be enclosed
I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe they can build some sort of Monorail system in an elevated Tube. You can have stations at the Convention Center, Caesars, Federal Building, Hyatt, and eventually extend it to the Superdome and the Medical District.
But then you may have the Vieux Carré old ladies that killed the Riverfront expressway back in the 1960's reincarnated to kill an elevated tube.
So it might be best to keep it under ground. Here is an idea, and I may be smoking the good stuff, but what about elevating the entire street like Chicago and Houston. Move the traffic to an elevated structure and reconnect all the buildings at the second or half levels. Have access ramps for the Teslas to surface at station locations and dip back into the Tesla roadway under the new upper road.
Also may need to have an electrified fence to keep out the homeless.
This post was edited on 5/27/26 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 5/27/26 at 6:19 pm to Guess
laughable.. Musk really out here begging for gov welfare and quarterly earnings calls
Posted on 5/27/26 at 6:51 pm to Tempratt
quote:
I would assume that water pumps willl be able to keep it cleared of water.
Water pumps and New Orleans don’t have a great history.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 7:04 pm to Guess
A one mile tunnel under Poydras. 
Posted on 5/27/26 at 7:14 pm to Tigercowboy
Well the batteries to the water pumps in new orleans are usually put in deep holes in the ground so the water can't find them.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 7:46 pm to fofuh4
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laughable.. Musk really out here begging for gov welfare and quarterly earnings calls
Musk/Boring would be paying for it, with the intention of making profit over time via tolls/"cab fare".
Posted on 5/27/26 at 8:20 pm to Guess
That tunnel is guaranteed to flood
Posted on 5/27/26 at 8:31 pm to Upperdecker
Can they do BR first.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:56 am to Guess
New Orleans has a tunnel - The Riverfront Expressway tunnel, a six-lane concrete tunnel built in the mid-1960s beneath the Rivergate Convention Center. It was intended to be part of the proposed Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway, which would have connected the riverfront to the Pontchartrain Expressway — but the larger expressway was never completed after major public opposition. It still exists under the old Harrah’s / Caesars site today.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:03 am to Novastar
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It still exists under the old Harrah’s / Caesars site today.
Caesars uses it for parking valeted cars, and another part is used to connect the garage and casino floor.
Ten years ago an unused part of the tunnel under Canal street caved in causing the street to be closed for a few weeks.
Not sure of any elevation numbers or maps, but that riverfront area sits pretty high, and during Katrina flooding stayed on the outside of downtown and the French Quarter. Flooding was even not an issue in the uptown and garden district areas by the river.
There maybe enough of an elevation for a tunnel to stay dry, but it has to be a really shallow tunnel.
This post was edited on 5/28/26 at 3:11 am
Posted on 5/28/26 at 5:53 am to Guess
Amazing that the first several reactions were concerns over topography. Perfect example of what’s wrong with the internet. Tunnels of this type are designed to go UNDER WATER!!
Posted on 5/28/26 at 5:54 am to TSmith
Except when the water’s soon lapping at both tunnel entrances.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:19 am to Guess
How about a tunnel connecting Pointe à la Hache with Yscloskey?
I’d use that more than one from the Convention Center to the Dome.
Maybe on westward to Montegut from Pointe à la Hache if there’s any money leftover.
I’d use that more than one from the Convention Center to the Dome.
Maybe on westward to Montegut from Pointe à la Hache if there’s any money leftover.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:36 am to fightin tigers
Oh come, on
Only if it's high river and within a few hundred feet of the Mississippi River Levees
Only if it's high river and within a few hundred feet of the Mississippi River Levees
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:45 am to TSmith
quote:even more amazing is that the topography concerns are actually geology concerns. Topography is is the condition of the surface
Amazing that the first several reactions were concerns over topography.
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