Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by readhn on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:45AM
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would you be ok with tunnel being built under YOUR house (that you own and worked/will be working for for the rest of your life) without consulting with you FIRST?
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Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by bbeekley on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:06AM
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Yes, as long as it gets the necessary permits and green-light from my elected officials.
The canceled tunnel was planned to go in about a block from where I currently live and I was excited for it. It wasn't even going to be under Brentwood (the northern terminus was about 2.5 mi away from the nearest edge). The hypothetical question for the plaintiffs might better be: would you be ok with a tunnel being built between 2-4 mi away from your house after successfully consulting with your elected representatives?
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by readhn on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:05PM
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>>Yes, as long as it gets the necessary permits and green-light from my elected officials.
This. all im saying.
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by cdelsolar on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:50AM
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yes? i don't own the prismatic wedge of land that extends all the way to the core of the Earth afaik
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by Barjak on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:24AM
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This the Ad Coelum Doctrine in legalese. I don't think it makes sense either.
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by rripken on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:00AM
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Why wouldn't you?
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by lodi on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:54PM
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You don't own the airspace over your house (over some minimum altitude), why would you own the land under your house (below some minimum depth). I would have absolutely no problem with a tunnel running 20m--or whatever the safe, silent amount is--underneath my house.
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by gamblor956 on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:50PM
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So you wouldn't have been okay with the Elontunnel, which runs closer than 20m below the surface--about 28 feet in the case of the Hawthorne tunnel. Though for point of comparison, some portions of the Metro system run at this depth or shallower.
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by untog on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:50AM
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Depends on the tunnel. A subway tunnel 12ft under the ground? Absolutely not. A deeper tunnel that I can't hear or feel? ...yeah?
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:05AM
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If the NVH of a train passing through is equal to or less than that of heavy trucks using the main road that's a few hundred feet away I wouldn't care one bit.
Re:Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
by mips_avatar on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:10AM
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Are you ok with airplanes flying over your house?