Billionaire Elon Musk's dream of using tunnels as re-imagined people movers kicked off in the real world Friday, as his Boring Company held a ceremony in Las Vegas celebrating the start of drilling for its first commercial project to get underway.
The $53 million twin-tunnel"Loop" system is expected to take visitors to three stops spread across the length of less than a mile, 40 feet below the sprawling and expanding Las Vegas Convention Center. Convention officials said in a statement that digging started in earnest — several test tunnels were already developed — Friday.Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill said getting across the 200-acre convention center site, which has a new addition, its West Hall, under construction, would have otherwise taken as long as 45 minutes by foot and included crossing busy streets.
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So Musk's tunnel does not address traffic congestion at all
Sorry to be a naysayer but drilling under open land is one thing, but such dramatic drilling under dense development (think weight) like VEGAS? wow! I guess we have only two choices: up or down. Boring Company.
The RICH folk gonna live down there when the planet goes 2 💩 !!
What could possibly go wrong?
Those hotel taxes that has funded this could have helped alot of the homeless
he`s a flake !
“Boring company” 😂😂😂😂 nbc throwing shade. This man doing incredible things. -Robert the unicorn
Way to go Dad!
yo diggity
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