The title is a joke, by the way, not a typo.
$52.5 million per mile.
I’ve seen far worse from government.
Musk Sees People-Moving Las Vegas Tunnel Opening in 2020
techxplore.com / Dec. 29/2019
A nearly mile-long tunnel in Las Vegas meant to showcase a “traffic busting” alternative for overcrowded cities should be completed next year, innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Twitter.
The people-moving tunnel is being built by The Boring Company
OK, we’ll all overlook the obvious jokes.
The 48-year-old billionaire tweeted late Friday that “Boring Co is completing its first commercial tunnel in Vegas, going from Convention Center to Strip.”
Wait . . . didn’t Stormy Daniels beat him to it?
In a second tweet he said it would be “hopefully fully operational in 2020.”
I can’t tell if this guy is a modern-day P.T. Barnum or what.
the 0.8-mile (1.3 kilometer) tunnel would facilitate travel within the center and to the city’s famous Strip, where many of its major hotels and casinos are located.
Monorail!
Las Vegas officials selected The Boring Company in March to design, build and manage twin tunnels capable of transporting passengers in small, autonomous vehicles, each holding eight to 16 passengers.
That ought to conjour up your favorite elevator experience . . .
… his new people-moving tunnel system in Las Vegas will use Tesla chassis
. . . in a car with 16 people.
He envisions thousands of autonomous electric vehicles eventually moving millions of people underground at speeds up to 155 miles per hour (250 kph) — far higher than the moderate 35 mph speeds planned for the short Las Vegas link.
Just curious what the multitude of subway designers already in existence have to say about this.
This is further proof of the results of the last Nevada Election. I have never understood my cities and states, if they must, didn’t copy Disney’s Monorail.
The monorail in Vegas would work better if it wasn’t limited. It does not go to the airport, it won’t go to the new stadium. It only covers a few casinos on only one side of the strip and it doesn’t go downtown. Frankly, having cabbed and driven in Vegas, I would welcome a relatively cheap (Hey, it IS Vegas okay) way of moving between places. Walking, as I get older, is less of an option especially when you consider the real distance you have to walk just to get to the casino right next door. This system has the potential to rectify that but, and it is a big but, it would require a massive amount of money, planning and maintenance (24/7 Baybee!) that I doubt very much it is achievable to the extent it needs to be achieved.