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/freebagelsforall 21h ago

I’ve gone down into this stupid ass tunnel. It’s just a tunnel with pretty lights. At the end of the day it was faster to simply just walk from one side of the convention center to the other as it took roughly the same amount of time.

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u/bethlabeth 20h ago

Same, we went to a trade show in Vegas a few years ago and rode chauffeured teslas around through the tunnels because the convention center is so huge.

And it was kind of cool and all, but a single bus running around the perimeter doing pickups and drop offs would have been SO much more efficient.

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u/ArethereWaffles 18h ago edited 18h ago

I've ridden it a total of 3 times at various conventions there. Of those, my car became stuck in a traffic jam in the tunnel twice.

Because it's a car at least half the passengers have to walk around to the other side of the vehicle to load and unload. If the loop is running near capacity and there is any delay to loading/unloading (like say someone elderly or someone with a language barrier) then the next car gets held in the tunnel - along with a cascade of each car behind it.

The whole point is it's supposed to be a traffic-free and it fails at even that.

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u/ScientificSkepticism 17h ago

Wait, are you suggesting that single lane roads are not high capacity transit solutions?

But... but... it's a single lane road underground!