Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction

S810 writes "Elon Musk, one of the main people behind PayPal, Space Exploration Technologies and Tesla Motors, has paid $50,000 to help Los Angeles speed up construction of the 405 Freeway, making it better and says that he will pay more if needed. From the article: 'Musk said he is open to pay the cost of adding workers to the widening project "as a contribution to the city and my own happiness. If it can actually make a difference, I would gladly contribute funds and ideas. I've super had it." — Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne.' For those who aren't familiar with this issue, the 405 Freeway runs from the northern end of the San Fernando Valley all the way down to El Toro and runs by LAX. Residents are getting frustrated that this widening project is over budget and well over the anticipated time frame that it was supposed to completed by."

Re:$50k enough?

[Anonymous Coward]

becasue the people who design this type of work, and mange it are really good.

My head just exploded.

Re:SD Freeway isn't the problem

[k6mfw]

Imagine a super highway, six lanes wide, will never again be a traffic jam, and it will be beautiful!

Re:Hamburger Analogy

[ebno-10db]

Next those idiots that don't understand economics are going to give people free air to breathe. Obviously with a "free" resource like that everyone is just going to keep on breathing and breathing until there's no more air left.

Re:Kill the Hippy Operated Vehicle lanes

[Pseudonym Authority]

How about replying instead of trying to knock off my karma?

You're an idiot. Happy?

Re:$50k enough?

[Obfuscant]

Then you take the amount of time to do all that and quadrupal it

Run a web content package on a dual-core dual-threaded CPU?

Re:May I contribute $5 ?

[Patch86]

If only we could establish some sort of formal, coordinated system for extracting money out of people, proportional to their earnings, to pay for local infrastructure projects. Think, boy, think!

Re:I found a solution

[tehcyder]

Amphibious tank? James Bond style Lotus Esprit/submarine? Nuclear-powered jetpack?

Better still, why doesn't he use the infinite energy of his ego to power a Star Trek transporter system between his house and office?