{"id":70442,"date":"2017-06-19T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/los-angeles-mayor-sounds-open-to-elon-musks-tunneling-plan"},"modified":"2017-06-19T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:42:30","slug":"los-angeles-mayor-sounds-open-to-elon-musks-tunneling-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/los-angeles-mayor-sounds-open-to-elon-musks-tunneling-plan","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles mayor sounds open to Elon Musk\u2019s tunneling plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/los-angeles-mayor-sounds-open-to-elon-musks-tunneling-plan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s concept of solving traffic congestion by digging networks of tunnels may have a fan in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the city\u2019s transit issues Sunday morning on ABC 7\u2018s \u201cEyewitness Newsmakers,\u201d Garcetti mentioned the possibility of tunneling: \u201cLike many other cities have, I\u2019d love to see maybe even with the new tunneling technology that people like Elon Musk is looking at, whether we could have a quick and direct route from LAX to Union Station.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>There could be an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/express?src=hash\">#express<\/a> train <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unionstationla\">@unionstationla<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flyLAXairport\">@flyLAXairport <\/a>\u2013Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorOfLA\">@MayorOfLA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericgarcetti\">@ericgarcetti<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Newsmakers?src=hash\">#Newsmakers<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash\">#WATCH<\/a> 11AM Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7\">@ABC7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJAFTge2VO\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/zJAFTge2VO\">pic.twitter.com\/zJAFTge2VO<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 Adrienne Alpert (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abc7adrienne\">@abc7adrienne<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abc7adrienne\/status\/876114755169079296\">June 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/los-angeles-mayor-may-be-open-to-elon-musks-tunneling-plan-2017-06-18?link=sfmw_fb\">http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/los-angeles-mayor-may-be-op...nk=sfmw_fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s concept of solving traffic congestion by digging networks of tunnels may have a fan in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Speaking about the city\u2019s transit issues Sunday morning on ABC 7\u2018s \u201cEyewitness Newsmakers,\u201d Garcetti mentioned the possibility of tunneling: \u201cLike many other cities have, I\u2019d love to see maybe even with the new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}