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Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016.
Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 | 5:30 p.m.
HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Billionaire Elon Musk has released a photograph of a tunnel he's building under a Los Angeles suburb to test a system that would transport people underground in their personal cars rather than by subway trains.
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla tweeted during the weekend that the tunnel was 500 feet so far and should be 2 miles long in three or four months.
In August, the Hawthorne City Council granted a subsurface easement extending approximately 2 miles from SpaceX property beneath the municipal airport and city streets to a point about a mile east of Los Angeles International Airport.
Musk also tweeted that hopefully in a year or so the tunnel would stretch from LAX to the San Fernando Valley, which would require approval from other governments.
