Posted on 06/17/2022 3:14:00 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Boring Company's underground transportation system will be more expansive than what it originally planned. The Elon Musk-founded company has just received approval from the city to bring its underground transportation system called the Vegas Loop to city limits. When Clark County Commissioners first approved the Vegas Loop, it was supposed to be a 29-mile tunnel network connecting 51 stations. Now, the network will span 34 miles and have a total of 55 stations, including ones that will serve the Harry Reid International Airport and the Allegiant Stadium.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Boring Co. President Steve Davis said tunneling in downtown Las Vegas could begin in 2023: "This is step two and there are eight steps for us to be opening. There's a long way to go and a lot of work to do. But if I were to guess on the spot I would guess we'd have machines in (the ground) next calendar year." According to the publication, the downtown stations include the Strat, Fremont Street Experience, the Slotzilla attraction, the Garage Mahal at the Circa Resort and the Plaza Hotel. Boring could add other stations in the future, as well, with each one costing anything in between $1.5 to $20 million to build.
Davis also said a ride from Fremont Street Experience downtown to Reid International would cost about $12 and take around eight or nine minutes. Before Boring's monorail system could shuttle people to and from downtown Las Vegas, though, it has to secure a bunch of permits and design approvals first. As The Verge notes, only 1.7 miles of the Vegas Loop are operational at the moment underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). That said, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill said he expects more portions serving parts of the Resort Corridor to be operational sometime in 2023.
I _STILL_ don't miss Pinky.
Pilots have to land with one eye closed?
Hairy screed airport? Never heard of it. Are planes embarrassed to land there?
Getting ready for CHUD
Musk also just got a contract for a tunnel just south of Austin.
sounds boring...
Las Vegas is one of the few cities where this can be done. It’s not on a river or the coast so the water table isn’t an issue, and there’s few if any conflicting tunnels, shafts, sewers, or conduits at the depth the subway will run. They’re not boring through bedrock either.
I hate that Dingy Harry has an airport named for himself.
Now that Musk fired a bunch of ingrates, he has far more funds available to build his subway.
I don’t find his company all that exciting either.
For Fremont Street Experience, that's a full day all by itself and I'll take a taxi up there. Some rough neighborhoods up that way if you stray too far.
What happens to the monorail?
Dingy Harry did the country the favor of kicking the bucket. Las Vegas did him the favor of renaming McCarran International Airport for him. Don’t ask why.
Whoever designed the LV monorail without running it to the airport was either an idiot or bribed/threatened by the taxi companies. The one place everyone wants to go and they don’t extend it.
This is really not a transportation solution. It is just another form of entertainment in Vegas.
The monorail, even if it did go to the airport, would be a boondoggle. It goes to the very back of the casinos, so going from one casino to another requires two verrry long walks even with the monorail.
Hope he doesn’t hit the ones the US Govt built to house the aliens.
Harry Reid was just doing his job as a Deep State liberal. How s job was to move the revolution forward.
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