LOS ANGELES Layvin Kurzawa Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , July 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. technology pioneer Elon Musk tweeted Thursday that his Boring Company tunnel project has received "verbal government approval" to build a New York- D.C. hyperloop, which would drastically cut the travel time between the two cities.
"Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins," said the 46-year-old behind the automaker Tesla and commercial launch company SpaceX through his favorite platform, Twitter.
It now takes about three and half hours by train to travel from NYC to Washington D.C., and over four hours by bus.
The Boring Company hopes to alleviate traffic by expanding transportation corridors. "One option is to 'go up' with flying cars. However, flying cars have issues with weather Kevin Trapp Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , noise, and generally increase anxiety levels of those below them. The other option is to 'go down' and build tunnels," according to the startup.
About an hour and a half later, Musk tweeted, "still a lot of work needed to receive formal approval, but am optimistic that will occur rapidly."
Later Thursday Julian Draxler Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , White House confirmed its officials have had "promising conversations to date" with Musk and executives from his Boring Company, according to a White House spokesman, who added that the administration was "committed to transformative infrastructure projects, and believe our greatest solutions have often come from the ingenuity and drive of the private sector," according to U.S. media reports.
In a later tweet on Thursday, Musk said the system would run from "City center to city center in each case Jese Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , with up to a dozen or more entryexit elevators in each city."
Then the former PayPal executive added, "First set of tunnels are to alleviate greater LA urban congestion. Will start NY-DC in parallel. Then prob LA-SF and a TX loop."
The Boring Company started as a joke, but became increasingly serious as Musk began tunneling in Los Angeles. In June, Musk announced that The Boring Company completed the first segment of its tunnel under Los Angeles.
"It has begun boring and just completed the first segment of tunnel in LA," Musk announced on June 28.
In April, while he was giving a TED Talk about the project Jean-Kevin Augustin Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , he released a video demonstration of the concept of hyperloop.
He had also revealed the planned route of the first tunnel: "Full length of first tunnel will run from LAX to Culver City, Santa Monica, Westwood and Sherman Oaks. Future tunnels will cover all of greater LA."
Currently, tunnels are really expensive to dig, "with some projects costing as much as 1 billion U.S. dollars per mile. In order to make a tunnel network feasible, tunneling costs must be reduced by a factor of more than 10 Jean-Christophe Bahebeck Paris Saint-Germain Jersey ," The Boring Company said on its website.
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Andy Murray of Great Britain in action against Gilles Simon of France in their third-round match at the Madrid Masters on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Defending champion Andy Murray sealed his place in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters on Thursday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over 16th seed Gilles Simon.
"After the first six or seven games I really started to hit the ball well," said Murray.
"I served well throughout the match. It was a good performance."
The two-time Grand Slam champion -extends his impressive record over Simon to 14-2, but wasn't pushed as hard as he -often has been in the past by the Frenchman as he didn't even face a break point in just over an hour and a half on court.
Murray pounced on a series of Simon -errors to seal the only break of the first set in the final game.
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"Normally against Gilles it's always a complicated match because of the way he plays," said Murray.
"He always makes it very difficult. There are a lot of long rallies, but because of the conditions, it was a bit faster, I was able to get a lot more free points on my serve."
World No.6 Kei Nishikori continued his fine form on the clay in Spain to reach the last eight with a 6-4, 7-5 win over 10th seed Richard Gasquet Hatem Ben Arfa Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , his first win over Gasquet in seven attempts.
Nishikori lost out to Nadal in the final of the Barcelona Open two weeks ago.
The Japanese survived a blip when he missed out on two match points on his own serve before being broken at 5-4 in the -second. However, he responded immediately to break the Gasquet serve for the fourth time in the match before serving it out at the second attempt.
In the women's Madrid Open, the only remaining seed, Simona Halep, was victorious in an all-Romanian quarterfinal against Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3, 0-6 Grzegorz Krychowiak Paris Saint-Germain Jersey , 6-1.
Halep reached her first WTA Premier Mandatory final at the Madrid Open in 2014, but lost to Maria Sharapova in three sets.
American qualifier Louisa Chirico also continued her fairytale run to reach the semifinals.
Chirico, ranked 130 in the world, beat Australian Daria Gavrilova 7-6 (71), 6-2 to reach her first-ever WTA semifinal.
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