On Wednesday, Could 18, The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (RMA) board was briefed on extra particulars about The Boring Firm’s (TBC) proposed tunnel from the San Antonio Worldwide Airport to downtown.
Bexar County Public Works director and county engineer Renee Inexperienced briefed the Alamo RMA board on The Boring Firm tunnel undertaking earlier than the members went into government session.
Inexperienced’s presentation famous that 10 million out of 30 million individuals who go to town move via the San Antonio Worldwide Airport. As such, the San Antonio tunnel undertaking is predicted to generate a internet income of as much as $25 million per yr, with fares between $10 to $12.
“These income projections would require, clearly, extra detailed examine for reasonableness and accuracy. That’s what the ridership and income examine will inform us,” stated Inexperienced.
In line with Inexperienced, all funding for the tunneling undertaking would come from Elon Musk’s tunneling firm. She emphasised that taxpayers wouldn’t spend a cent on the undertaking. TBC supplied a “turn-key lump sum development worth the place they assume all of the dangers.” The Boring Firm undertaking is estimated to price between $241 million and $298 million.
TBC plans to construct a one-way tunnel 7.6 miles lengthy that might run parallel U.S. 281. Nevertheless, the route of the tunnel won’t be settled till a feasibility examine is carried out. An examination of potential environmental dangers should be carried out as nicely.
The San Antonio tunnel would have exit shafts positioned each half-mile for security functions. The variety of stations the tunnel would have continues to be unknown.
The presentation said that 100 Tesla automobiles might transport about 32,000 passengers via the San Antonio tunnel each day on common. It could have a most capability of transporting 4,500 passengers per hour with 100 automobiles. If the tunnel’s Tesla fleet elevated to 350 automobiles, it could be capable to accommodate 112,000 commuters each day and 15,750 passengers per hour from the airport to downtown.
“That is a particularly environment friendly system. You don’t have any cross visitors, you’re not stopping at every location, you’re both pulling in or pulling out of the tunnel system,” stated Inexperienced.
She emphasised that every journey would have little to zero wait time. Nevertheless, Inexperienced additionally highlighted that The Boring Firm tunnel would work alongside conventional transit methods and wouldn’t be competing for a similar ridership.
“The undertaking can present an equal capability to each bus and fast transit for a fraction of the working prices that we’re speaking about, whereas offering reliability and fixing a whole lot of the last-mile difficulties that you just see with conventional transit methods by using underground rides the place the system will complement any plan for ongoing transit sort tasks and isn’t anticipated to interchange them,” she added.
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