Elon Musk’s Boring Company plan for a 69-station ‘Vegas Loop’ is anything but nice
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#6BEQH)
Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images The Boring Company, Elon Musk's mostly unreliable tunnel digging venture, has won the approval to expand its Vegas Loop" system to - wait for it - 69 stations. Nice? Not really.
The tunnel system is Musk's supposedly futuristic idea to alleviate road traffic by shifting some of that bumper-to-bumper traffic underground. The expansion, approved by the Clark County Commissioners, allows The Boring Company to construct 25 miles of additional tunnels for a total of 65 miles and 18 additional stations.
The original vision for the Vegas Loop was 51 stations and 29 miles of tunnels - so this represents a pretty big vote of confidence in Musk's idea of an underground network of Teslas whizzing through tunnels that are only slightly larger...