Elon Musk’s Boring Company Plots Texas Tunnels

Six years after launching with grandiose plans to fight “soul-destroying traffic” in many of the biggest and most congested U.S. cities, Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has shifted its focus largely to Nevada and Texas, two states that promise far less of the regulatory barriers it’s run into in other locations.

Boring had proposed multiple infrastructure projects of a scale that’s become rare in the U.S. It announced plans to build tunnels for passenger traffic between Washington, D.C., and New York, underneath Los Angeles’s clogged Interstate 405 freeway, and between downtown Chicago and the city’s O’Hare International Airport. Executives at Boring have decided to pull back on ambitious projects in states including California, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not authorized to discuss Boring’s plans. A company representative declined to comment.