Boring Company Starts Digging Morgan’s Accessible Tunnel in Texas

The Boring Company has started digging Morgan’s Inclusion Tunnel in San Antonio, moving a nearly mile-long project designed to help people of all abilities travel around the Morgan’s campus into construction.

Morgan Hartman marked the milestone with a ceremonial start of the tunnelling machine, according to Morgan’s November 10 announcement. The Boring Company confirmed that digging is officially underway, calling the event inspiring and praising the welcoming community.

The planned route will connect Morgan’s Hotel with Morgan’s Wonderland, with stops at Morgan’s Wonder Care and Morgan’s Multi-Assistance Center, known as the MAC. Morgan’s says the underground connection will let visitors move between those destinations while sheltered from extreme heat, cold and rain.

Accessibility is being built into the project from the beginning, with Morgan’s Inclusion Institute helping guide the design alongside The Boring Company’s engineers. The announcement describes an Ultra-Accessible tunnel, but does not give an opening date.

The project has been taking shape since The Boring Company announced its Tunnel Vision Challenge winners in March. Morgan’s was not one of the three main winners, but the company singled it out, alongside a utility tunnel in Hendersonville, Tennessee, as another project it wanted to help build.

It also gives San Antonio a concrete construction milestone separate from Elon Musk’s much larger proposed Austin-to-San Antonio tunnel. That September pitch envisioned speeds above 200 mph and trips under 30 minutes. Those ambitions should not be confused with the campus connection now being dug for Morgan’s.

In a follow-up update, The Boring Company said just 29 days separated completion of tunnelling in Bastrop from the start of tunnelling in San Antonio. That measures the turnaround between the two jobs, not how long Morgan’s tunnel will take to finish.

Morgan’s shared photos of the ceremonial start in its announcement, while The Boring Company confirmed the start of digging. The next milestone for visitors will be learning when the connection can actually carry passengers.

Could accessible campus tunnels be one of The Boring Company’s most useful applications?