Traffic is a scourge. It's done nothing for anyone except the makers of Xanax and Damien Chizelle.

Americans have long known this and long complained about this and yet we're stuck.

But in 2018 a visionary presented a possible solution, digging.

We're trying to dig a whole under LA and this is to create the beginning of

we'll hopefully be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion.

And we went for it. Of course we did. We needed to fix. We thought Elon Musk and his

boring company had found one. Big cities, small cities, the boring company has

approached them to solve their problems with tunnels and they get them all excited

for tunnels. And then as soon as they need to get some approvals or they need to

actually put the money up for what's being built they have completely vanished.

Coming up on today explained what happened when we let Silicon Valley try to fix

our traffic problem.

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DHQ.

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just

because I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5. But I think it's just the

holiday period is just for me it's the most romantic period. And I think anyone

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