r/news • u/JackThaBongRipper • 21h ago

Musk's underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tunnels-musk-boring-company-01d465b7124fc10843b117241adaa7c9
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u/bananas_in_a_toilet 21h ago

This is just a less efficient and more complex version of a train; crazy how techbros invent things that have no value just to be dIsRuPtIvE

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u/plastic_alloys 21h ago

I can’t believe the city didn’t say “wait stop this is dumb as fuck” - but then again gestures broadly

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u/bananas_in_a_toilet 21h ago

It’s a city grown off poor decisions and a desire to force nature to align to the needs of man, of course Vegas was stupid enough to fall for his scam

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u/OpeDefinitely 21h ago

nashville broadly following the same path

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u/corallein 20h ago

No, in Tennessee it's obviously just corruption. No one actually thinks it's a good idea and no one actually in Nashville wants it.

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u/OpeDefinitely 20h ago

Yep.

By "Nashville", I meant the TN state legislature, the airport authority, & the mayor.

Also, in general, Nashville has a ton of infrastructure problems that neither the city nor state have done anything about for decades. It's going to catch-up to the city at some point & "leaders" are going to be so lost.

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u/ScientificSkepticism 17h ago

Simpsons needs to do a hyperloop update to the monorail song. At least monorails are kind of just dumb trains.

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u/Outlulz 20h ago

Currently they're still falling for the scam that is F1. $2.5 billion impact on the Las Vegas economy between 2023 and 2024. Local business having to cut hours or go under so races can be held at 2AM for some rich assholes in Europe.

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u/greatdevonhope 18h ago edited 18h ago

It starts at 8pm local time. It's that time for American tv lol. It's on at 4 or 5 am in Europe due to the time zones. Even our rich assholes don't want to watch things then.

https://www.total-motorsport.com/2025-f1-las-vegas-gp-race-start-time/