Wired » Founded and funded by Elon Musk, The Boring Company wants to build underground creations that you can ride at speeds up to 150 mph, without ever encountering a speck of traffic. But before it sinks its machines into the ground and tunnels to victory, the company has to do something truly monumental: get past local […]
Gizmodo » Elon Musk and his Boring Company have been very busy digging a deep, long hole under Los Angeles, and Musk wants to show it off.
Capital Press » The state spent $80 million this summer repairing 30 of the state’s 40 most critically impaired levees, but the century-old levee system is in need of many more upgrades.
Marin Independent Journal » Next month three Marin Municipal Water District spillways will undergo an inspection to make sure they are safe in the wake of the Oroville Dam problems earlier this year.
PaintSquare » The Liberty Canyon Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Project aims to construct an animals-only overpass on 101 in the area of the City of Agoura Hills, just south of Simi Valley, outside Los Angeles. The idea, which has proven successful in other places, is to provide a safe crossing for big cats and other animals that then […]
Curbed Los Angeles » From horse-drawn wagons to subway cars, a pictorial take on the transformation of travel in one of the biggest cities in America. The reason, scientists say, is a persistent pattern of low sea level pressure over the central Arctic Ocean.