🚇 Elmo's #Hyperloop #Hypeloop prototype is gone.

❝After the last student competition in the summer of 2019, SpaceX seemingly abandoned operations at the nearly milelong test tube, which collected dust and debris from nearby railroad tracks, as well as pine needles from trees that hadn't been trimmed in years due to lack of access ...

❝The tube took up an eastbound lane heading toward Crenshaw Avenue, comlicating existing concerns in the busy area about traffic congestion, drivers traveling at freeway speeds and pedestrian safety.

❝Alex Estrada, a manager at Tow World on Jack Northrop Avenue, said he began to worry about pedestrians who were forced to walk along the street because of the tube.

❝"It pretty much got in everybody's way," he said.

❝After the SpaceX competitions ceased, he and others began to question why the tube remained.

❝"I assumed they forgot about it, or just left it there," Estrada said.❞

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-05/elon-musk-hyperloop-tunnel-hawthorne-removed

Pull quotes courtesy of of Alissa Walker on the birbsite, who adds, "Seems fitting that Elon Musk's abandoned hyperloop tube was completely blocking the sidewalk and forcing pedestrians to walk on a dangerously fast street."

(Alissa went to Substack instead of Mastodon: awalkerinla.substack.com)