Renee Green, Bexar County’s director of public works, told the board Wednesday that the estimated time to design and construct the project would be less than 36 months.
A modified Tesla Model X electric vehicle carrying Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives for an unveiling event for The Boring Company's Hawthorne test tunnel in Hawthorne, California, in 2018.
“It will assist with growth congestion, which is currently projected to be about $20 billion short, meaning we will not have enough money, taxpayer money, to build out all the transportation needs that we have to address this,” she said. The Alamo Loop Project would be a high-capacity, one-way underground tunnel of 7.6 miles long that will run under U.S. 281, which the RMA says can transport customers via direct routes faster than traditional transportation systems in Tesla vehicles, including newer ones as they become available.
“This is an extremely efficient system. You don’t have any cross traffic, you’re not stopping at each location, you’re either pulling in or pulling out of the tunnel system,” said Green. Tunnels would be constructed using an Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine launched at station locations, with multiple machines operating at any time. Tunneling can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Green said. For safety, emergency egress shafts, or stairs, will be built along the tunnel every half- mile. The tunnel system, Green said, would not utilize live electric thirdrails like subways, will not contain any touch hazards and will be well-lit, in case of an evacuation.
Also in phase one of the engineering process, the implementation plan will study geological information, and a subsurface feasibility study will be conducted to determine any underground obstacles that would result in risk. If risk is identified, Green said, The Boring Company would pause all plans and “walk away. … Unless they themselves want to pay or subsidize [improvement].”
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