Tesla’s Los Angeles and Maryland tunnels run into red tape

Both United States projects are currently mired in a regulatory no-man’s land of environmental review and have yet to break ground.

Four years ago, Elon Musk embarked on an ambitious project to connect Washington and Baltimore with an underground tunnel. One year later, Musk’s tunneling company, Boring Co., announced another splashy endeavor: building an underground transit system to shuttle fans to Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium. Today, neither is close to completion. Both projects are currently mired in a regulatory no man’s land of environmental review and have not broken ground. Now, Boring Co. has removed all mention of either of them from its website—a suggestion that Musk is backing away from the projects. “Big infrastructure projects tend to lurk in people’s minds for long after they have died a peaceful death,” said Dena Belzer, president of consultancy Strategic Economics and a lecturer in regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. “I think you can declare these dead.”