The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
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#2Perhaps the timing makes sense, similar to high-rises and how they have their concrete structure complete a very long time before anyone can actually move in.
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#3This sounds comically obvious, but WOW that was fast. Really impressed that they are delivering on some of their promises, given Musk's history of over-optimism. Sincerely wishing them the best of luck, because if they can pull this off, there will be other cities making deals with them (please San Francisco I'm begging you)
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#4The article is confusing. It says that they are supposed to deliver two tunnels - are both going on at the same time?
It also says that they’re 6 football fields in: 1800 ft. This is only 35% of the stated mile length for the tunnel. Under what metric is this tunnel or project 50% complete?
Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
#5The article is confusing. It says that they are supposed to deliver two tunnels - are both going on at the same time? It also says that they’re 6 football fields in: 1800 ft. This is only 35% of the stated mile length for the tunnel. Under what metric is this tunnel or project 50% complete?
This article from 10 days ago says "About 1,900 feet of the 4,300-foot-long tunnel has been dug in the seven weeks since the project’s kickoff".
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/conventions/boring-co...
So I think the Teslarati article just rounded 4,300 feet up to "a mile" (=5,280 feet). 1900/4300 = 44%.
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#6The Strip, McCarran airport, and downtown are not within one or two miles of each other. They are further apart than that so there must be something else to it.
The Strip itself could use the whole length of the tunnel, so whatever this is connecting to is going to be more limited then it might sound from the article.
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#7Looking forward to sheltering in this when the shit hits the fan!
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#8Stated opening date isn't until 2021, so they're doing the first 90% of the project which is drilling then the second 90% which is finishing the infrastructure, installing stations, etc. It's interesting to see but not exactly a milestone just yet.
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#9So they're halfway through digging the tunnel, not halfway through doing all the other things to make the tunnel actually as useful as musk is claiming.
This all just seems like subways from first principles but probably worse.
Re: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
#10The Strip, McCarran airport, and downtown are not within one or two miles of each other. They are further apart than that so there must be something else to it. The Strip itself could use the whole length of the tunnel, so whatever this is connecting to is going to be more limited then it might sound from the article.
It's just from one end of the LVCC to the other.