{"id":221166,"date":"2026-03-26T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:52:11","slug":"texas-city-named-as-1-of-3-finalists-for-elon-musks-boring-company-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221166\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas city named as 1 of 3 finalists for Elon Musk’s ‘Boring Company’ projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

Dallas is a finalist for Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company tunnel project.<\/p>\n

The proposed “University Hills Loop” would carry Teslas through a one-mile tunnel.<\/p>\n

Final decision pending as the company studies feasibility and meets with leaders.<\/p>\n

DALLAS – After a months-long competition to convince tech mogul Elon Musk’s Boring Company to choose a U.S. city for a transit tunnel project, one Texas city has made the cut for the final three in consideration.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tunnel Vision Challenge\u2019 finalists<\/p>\n

What we know<\/p>\n

The “Thrilling Three” in the running for the Tunnel Vision Challenge<\/a>, announced in January, are Dallas, New Orleans, LA, and Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n

Dallas is in consideration for a “University Hills Loop.” When the challenge first launched on Jan. 18, the options of “a Loop tunnel, a freight tunnel, a pedestrian tunnel, a utility tunnel, a water tunnel, or any other use case where a tunnel would be useful” were pitched. All three finalists are Loop tunnels<\/a>, which the company tags as “Teslas in Tunnels!”<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s announcement says the projects will be up to one mile long and 12 feet in diameter.<\/p>\n

What’s next<\/p>\n

The Boring Company said in their Wednesday announcement that, if possible, it “would be awesome” to build all three Loops.<\/p>\n

The company plans to, along with the project stakeholders, enter into a rigorous diligence process which includes “meetings with elected officials, regulators, community leaders, and business leaders; geotechnical borings; and utility and subsurface infra investigation.”<\/p>\n

They say they plan to build any and all final projects that are found to be feasible.<\/p>\n

Possible second Texas project<\/p>\n

The company said there were other projects that caught their attention as interesting projects, which they plan to attempt in the near future.<\/p>\n

These include the “Morgan’s Wonderland Tunnel” in San Antonio, as well as the “Hendersonville Utility Tunnel” in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

Information in this article comes from The Boring Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Dallas is a finalist for Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company tunnel project. The proposed “University Hills Loop”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86140,85123,8892,86139,27,29,28,85864,15704,86142,86143,86141],"class_list":["post-221166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-boring-co","tag-boring-company","tag-elon-musk","tag-pedestrian-tunnel","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tunnel-vision","tag-university-hills","tag-university-hills-loop","tag-utility-tunnel","tag-water-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}