Who, why, and where to write.

Author

This atlas is written and maintained by Slava Solodkiy — investor, founder, and long-time student of inter-regional fixed links.

Why

Because the questions worth asking about infrastructure are the ones nobody is being paid to ask. The atlas exists because thirteen crossings were already, separately, being studied — and nobody had assembled them into one civic-imagination object. The split between Resident and Elon Musk modes is an attempt to make the same evidence legible to two audiences that rarely read the same documents.

How to use it

• Browse the atlas (homepage) and pick any crossing.
• Each tunnel page has two views: Resident and Elon Mode. Toggle in the header, or press M.
• Every page links to the source PDF, the cited Google Doc, a YouTube brief, and a podcast episode.
• The atlas is meant to be read in any order. The Manifesto and the Pitch deck are the anchors.

How to cite

Solodkiy, S. (2026). Escapist.City — Elon Musk's Metastate of Mega-Tunnels. https://www.escapist.city

Contact

For partnership, press, or to tell me you'd live on the Belfast–Glasgow line: write to hello@escapist.city.

Acknowledgements

The atlas owes its facts to the engineers, contractors, regulators and journalists whose work each tunnel page cites. The atlas owes its tone to William Gibson and to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.