Bel Air vs. the underground railroad

“Elon Musk just witnessed the might of the Not in My Backyard empire firsthand,” said Rachel Kraus in Mashable.com. The tech billionaire canceled plans for one of his high-speed transport test tunnels beneath Los Angeles because of a lawsuit from neighborhood associations. The tunnel would have run in West L.A., beneath Sepulveda Boulevard. “Here’s the thing: These neighborhood groups don’t actually represent the residents who live adjacent to the tunnel.” They represent homeowners in tony Brentwood and in Bel Air—which happens to be where Musk lives. The groups believe Musk wants to extend the tunnel to their neighborhood, which would “personally save him the headache of sitting bumper to bumper on the 405” freeway. In Hawthorne, an L.A. neighborhood where residents earn nearly 60 percent less than Brentwood’s,

Musk has already completed a tunnel.