Elon Musk's Boring Company to start digging citywide Las Vegas tunnel system

(Pocket-lint) - Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has received support from officials to physique a web of conveyance tunnels underneath Las Vegas.

Called the Vegas Loop, the strategy volition let passengers to thrust successful Teslas to get to Sin City's airport, hotel-casinos connected the strip, shot stadium, and normal center. Keep successful caput The Boring Company already operates a preview mentation of the Vegas Loop nether the Las Vegas Convention Center. It opened successful 2021 and consists of 2 0.8-mile tunnels. Now, with support from Clark County officials, The Boring Company tin get started connected a city-wide expansion.

The Boring Company's connection for the Vegas Loop includes 29 miles of tunnels and 51 stations serving arsenic galore arsenic 57,000 passengers per hour.

Vegas Loop is expanding - 29 miles and 51 stations!
Thanks to the Clark County squad for the large concern and to the Commissioners for unanimous approval. https://t.co/KrfF5SUsxq

— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) October 20, 2021

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Boring Company volition get hotels and casinos to wage for stations astatine their respective businesses. Each of those stops volition person to spell done a permitting process, too. Ultimately, the program is for nary payer dollars to beryllium utilized connected gathering the Vegas Loop. 

All that said, The Boring Company's imaginativeness for a tunnel-based proscription system has changed a batch implicit the years, and its efforts to physique a web of tunnels successful different US cities - similar Chicago and Los Angeles - person ne'er panned retired nor lived up to the company's promises. For instance, alternatively of pods successful tunnels, The Boring Company has scaled backmost to conscionable "Teslas successful Tunnels". But, eventually, the extremity is to fto the Teslas thrust themselves.

The Boring Company believes tunnels tin little proscription costs and alleviate postulation congestion successful immoderate city.

In Las Vegas, specifically, it expects a 5-mile travel from the airdrome to the normal halfway to instrumentality astir 5 minutes and outgo $10, portion a 3.6-mile thrust from the normal halfway to the shot stadium could beryllium done successful conscionable 4 minutes and should outgo astir $6 per traveler. 

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 21 October 2021.