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the boring company wants to save you from soul destroying traffic and just like a late 90s Jamiroquai song they're gonna do it by sending you deeper underground Elon Musk and boring company Project Lead Steve Davis announced their plans in LA on Thursday night outlining a future where tunnels crisscross the city and passengers can zoom from downtown LA to LAX in eight minutes twenty years ago the idea of a billionaire tunnelling under la would have been kinda weird especially if he was selling flamethrowers to fund it but the boring company has been pouring onto LA for two years now all in a bid to create a personalized mass transit system musk says his weird little Disney ride in the middle of LA will be deep enough to clear utilities like water pipes and safe enough for the earthquake prone city and because the tunnels can be stacked hundreds deep he says they can solve any level of traffic in the future the company is starting with a 2.7 mile test tunnel closed to the public that will run parallel to LA's 405 freeway which must described as the seventh level of health the company already has support of metro LA for the test tunnel and musk wants to keep going to eventually cover the whole greater LA area to do that he needs to start digging faster the company's machines currently go ten times slower than a snail but pretty soon you could be paying $1 to speed across LA at 150 miles an hour sure it all sounds pretty ambitious and there's no word on when we'll actually get this lightning-fast public transport network but once it's built musk plans on hosting a party in the tunnel the theme pre post-apocalyptic naturally I'm Claire Allie for CNN and for more boring updates head to cn8 calm