Marte Gutierrez, J.R. Paden Chair and Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in an Wired article about Elon Musk's idea to build a network of high-speed transportation tunnels in Los Angeles. Gutierrez is also the director of the University Transportation Center for Underground Transportation Infrastructure (UTC-UTI), the U.S. first Department of Transportation-funded UTC dedicated to underground infrastructure. From the article: Thus far, experts say, the ideas Musk has articulated aren’t exactly new. But they could ....