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Entrepreneur Elon Musk said he believes the Las Vegas tunneling system
his Boring Company is creating under the city's convention center could
be done by next year, possibly months ahead of schedule.
Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, made the prediction on Twitter.
The $48.7 million project will transport visitors to and from the
massive Las Vegas Convention Center along three spots to the Las Vegas
Strip, turning a 15-minute walk into a one-minute trip.
"Boring Co is completing its first commercial tunnel in Vegas, going
from Convention Center to Strip, then will work on other projects," Musk
said on Twitter. When asked when it would be completed, he tweeted,
"Hopefully fully operational in 2020."
An earlier announcement had the convention center tunnel being completed by January 2021.
Steve Hill, president of the chief executive of the Las Vegas Convention
and Visitors Authority, said this weekend that The Boring Company's
two-mile tunnel under the convention center is scratching the surface of
a possible tunnel system that could span the entire Las Vegas Strip
from Fremont Street to McCarren International Airport.
"We do think that over time, this just doesn't have to be just a
convention center or just a [Las Vegas[ Strip type of transportation
system," Hill said. "This can be a system that everybody in the valley
can take advantage of."
A map on The Boring Company's websites shows a future tunnel system that
would have stops at virtually every major Las Vegas casino and hotel on
the Las Vegas Strip, taking visitors from the airport through the city.
"We also see it as a real opportunity to solve some of the congestion
problems in Las Vegas going forward," Hill said. "So it is helpful to
start at the convention center, make sure that it works, work the kinks
out and then look at the opportunity of moving into the city."
Musk said his tunnel projects won't replace other forms of transportation.
"These would be road tunnels for zero emissions vehicles only - no toxic
fumes is the key," Musk tweeted. Really, just an underground road, but
limited to EVs (from all auto companies). This is not in place of other
solutions, eg light rail, but supplemental to them.
Last December, Musk unveiled an "entirely new system of transport" with a
demonstration of a 1.14-mile test tunnel intended to ease Los Angeles
traffic.
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