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The Las Vegas visitors authority on Tuesday picked Elon Musk's tunnel-making startup "The Boring Company" to build an underground "people mover" as part of a massive convention center expansion.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) board of directors touted its choice as a "monumental decision that will revolutionize Southern Nevada's transportation."
The Boring Company will design, construct and operate a convention center transport system consisting of a loop of express-route tunnels capable of carrying passengers in autonomous electric vehicles at high speeds, according to LVCVA.
Travellers of the Vegas underground are advised to keep an eye out for Deathclaws, Mirelurks, Mole rats, and Feral Ghouls.
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Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:00AM (3 children)
The Vegas casinos got together a few years ago, and built a lovely monorail train system that only goes to a few hotels, and stops at the border of the airport (so everyone needs to bus, uber or taxi in).
Not surprisingly, no one uses the train. If it went just a bit farther, to the terminal building, it would be packed daily.. Airport to city center (or the strip in this case) is one of the easiest business cases for any mass transit system (though not necessarily the easiest political case... taxi unions and payola / campaign contributions).
Hopefully Elon's tunnel will at least go somewhere useful this time, the airport would be a great start :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:43AM (1 child)
I doubt it will go to the airport. They've had a hard enough time getting the monorail there. The problem is that the tax and mass transit systems start throwing money around and generating all sorts of hubbub whenever something threatens them, as the airport is where they get most of their big dollar business from. Heck, the monorail is privately funded itself by corporations with big bank accounts and they still haven't gotten all the necessary red tape taken care of in that regard.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:00AM
Parent means Taxi.
And he's exactly right. The Taxi lobby has been blocking common sense mass transit. From the most obvious place, the airport.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:02AM
Yep. Everybody's on the Strip. It's *jammed*. It's like, oh... there's a monorail over there someplace, but you have to leave the Strip, pay, wait, and get back to the strip. You could have walked down the Strip in the meantime, enjoying the spectacle that is Vegas.
If it's not *right there* on the sidewalk like a NYC subway, it's almost not worth it. NYNY could have a real subway right out front. How cool would that be?
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