SAN ANTONIO – Practically seven months after Alamo Metropolis officers mentioned they have been advancing discussions with The Boring Co. relating to a proposed underground transit tunnel connecting San Antonio Worldwide Airport with the downtown space, Elon Musk’s enterprise has but to strike a deal.
As the corporate focuses on different Texas tasks, native stakeholders are nonetheless searching for extra readability on a San Antonio mission that would price upwards of $290 million to assemble.
“It’s difficult. We’ve simply obtained to get it proper,” mentioned Alamo Regional Mobility Authority Chairman Mike Lynd, whose group has had a key position in talks with The Boring Co.
The Boring Co.’s signature mission is the Las Vegas Conference Middle Loop System, a 1.7-mile improvement that features two tunnels and three stations. It’s increasing that system to attach with Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip.
Musk’s enterprise has encountered blended outcomes from totally different cities the place it has pursued varied transit tunnel plans. Whereas a few of these potential tasks might have hit lifeless ends, others nonetheless have traction.
In Could, Kyle’s Metropolis Council authorized knowledgeable companies settlement to assist engineering work for an underground pedestrian tunnel linking the town’s Plum Creek space with Kyle Crossing, a mixed-use improvement and leisure vacation spot.
The next month, The Boring Co., which developed a Tesla Gigafactory in Travis County, filed a web site plan utility with the Metropolis of Austin for a possible personal entry tunnel.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who has circled transportation infrastructure as a precedence, isn’t bought on the tunnel choice.
“We’d like multimodal connectivity,” he advised me. “I don’t see the place a tunnel mission suits into that. I don’t know what it accomplishes.”
Final fall, the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority issued a request for {qualifications} and proposals for a possible strategy to design and construct a transportation mission usually connecting the airport to downtown San Antonio. In December, the RMA acquired proposals from 5 corporations.
In March, the RMA interviewed two finalists, together with Boring Co. Transit USAK was the opposite finalist.
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