Boring Company Prepares to Dig in Vegas

The bet on the Boring Company in Las Vegas is getting more interesting. 

Pictures of the company’s efforts on the planned “Loop” have emerged on Twitter, showing the Boring company is ready to dig.

Las Vegas news site Vital Vegas shared photos on Twitter of heavy machinery staged at the dig site, including parts to the company’s boring machine, cranes, and a pile driver. 

https://twitter.com/x/status/1174391620197765120

The city is looking for a transportation solution for it’s sprawling convention center, which will stretch two miles when current construction projects are finished by 2021.

Las Vegas could become the first city to complete a commercial transportation service with the Boring Company. The price estimate for the system is reportedly $30 million to $55 million, which will be paid with money from the convention authority’s general fund, which is funded mostly by hotel room taxes in Las Vegas.

 

[mhan00]

They are going to need larger longer vehicles to transport even a quarter of the people that walk the strip every day. They will need to be able to transport people with wheel chairs. Need to be ADA compliant in order to transport the public
How many people visit the Las Vegas Strip each day?


The average visitor walks about 4.1 hours on the Strip, visiting an average 6.2 properties. On average, 17,700 people are walking on the Strip at any given hour on any given day. The low time of the day: from 6 a.m. to noon, about 5,700; the high time: from 6 p.m. to midnight, about 34,900

As I understand it, they aren’t looking to accommodate the people wandering the strip, seeing the sights, and moseying on into whatever casino catches their fancy as I’m sure a lot of those 17,700 people are doing. They’re targeting people who know exactly where they want to go who don’t want to have to fight the crowds/lug their luggage to the casino/sit in a taxi for 20 minutes trying to travel a mile or two, which is presumably a smaller fraction of that number. If they can help people get from the airport to their hotel on the strip in a reasonable time and help people go from one casino to another quickly, they don’t need to service every person visiting Vegas to be useful. The Vegas loop will be a proof of concept for them, I’m guessing, and I’m sure a lot of cities will be watching to see how well it performs in comparison to the Boring Company’s projections.

 

[Cosmacelf]

1900: Cars aren’t practical, roads are bad and there’s no place to refuel them.
1910: How is a single seater airplane going to catch on? You can’t transport enough people that way.
1920: Electric washing machines for the home don’t make sense, hardly anyone has a fuse box large enough for one.
1930: Television is way too expensive for the average household.
1940: Airplanes are fine for short distances, but they’ll never replace ships for crossing the oceans.
1960: Only big businesses will ever be able to afford a computer.
1970: The worldwide market for computers numbers in the thousands.
1980: The Internet is fine for academics (yes it existed then), but it’ll never reach into the home.
1990: 10 Mbps Ethernet and 10 MB hard drives are plenty (as is 640k RAM).

Hopefully you get the idea. Loop as a transit system is in its infancy. Please give it ten years before criticizing it, lest you look foolish.