Ars TechnicaMusk’s Boring Company gets OK to dig 68 miles of tunnels under Las Vegas
Other municipalities might have soured on Musk's tunnels, but Las Vegas hasn't.
Gerwin Bijsterbosch@arstechnica THIS IS SO STUPID!
Kevin Karhan 
@arstechnica I'm glad shit like this is so illegal in #Germany that they don't even bother applying...
Marcel Waldvogel@kkarhan @arstechnica Anyway: If you want a train system, build a train system. Not a system that tries to work like a train but has to avoid looking like a train.
Because car people don't think that trains look sexy enough.
Trains (and their tram/bus siblings) are the most efficient ways to transport people along the same path.
Elon Musk's Loop is a Bizarrely Stupid Idea
And if the geography doesn't lend itself to #rails & #trains and #trams then consider #Trolleybus|es!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9EARKvCTc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Solingen
Why TrolleyBuses are vastly Superior to Battery Electric Buses!
Pomax@arstechnica Plot twist: "thanks for the tunnel. No, we never gave you permission to build the thing *you* wanted in it, we only gave you permission for the tunnel itself"
deefdragon@TheRealPomax @arstechnica would live if they turned arround and put in subways. would be a much better system longterm.
moondog548@arstechnica kickbacks on boondoggles are (presumably) a helluva drug.
Heh... #kickbacks #boondoggle
Troll@arstechnica I’m honestly surprised it’s not 69 miles.
aburtch@arstechnica This is the biggest bullshit waste of money of all time. It's long been scientifically proven that for ALL auto travel there is latent demand. Meaning you can never build enough roads (or tunnels) there will always be too many cars that want to access them.
If hotels are "begging for transportation options" BUILD EFFICIENT AND ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSIT.
Shadow Heart@arstechnica well Vegas IS known for its gambling.
Samus Crankpork has moved@arstechnica Hasn't he not even built most of the tunnels he said he was going to build already? What makes people think this one will be any different?
Illyana 🏳️⚧️@arstechnica Which boring company? They're all boring.
Tracy Hall@arstechnica oh boy. Slow noisy bumper cars in tunnels for almost nobody. How Vegas
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇@arstechnica boooo-ring
Claude Rains@arstechnica Very much looking forward to watching the future Kollaborative Karmic Konvergence Event, when the future Las Vegas A’s stadium suddenly collapses into a Musk borehole during a noisy, packed Trump (R) Rally. The resulting Hellmouth to the Underworld will be developed and incorporated by Steve Wynn.
I believe it will also result in a “Caper” movie 🍿 plot involving thieves digging a tunnel between a borehole 🕳️& a casino 🎰. That’s just inevitable.
I believe it will also result in a “Caper” movie 🍿 plot involving thieves digging a tunnel between a borehole 🕳️& a casino 🎰. That’s just inevitable.
JONATHAN@arstechnica ça peut être pas mal ce genre de tunnel pour Marseille
Matt Fossen@arstechnica I thought X was Musk’s boring company…
Olm-e... boring ... yeah ... definitely ... 🥱
David Sacerdote@arstechnica It's not so much that other cities have soured on the Boring Company, but that they have a history of non-delivery.
Ryan Fraley@arstechnica Imagine spending some of that money on a decent system of public transportation.
Do better, Vegas.
Dragon-sided D@arstechnica Vegas? The city that is running out of water and has no credible long term remediation plan is spending its budget wisely, I see. Not!
Imperator Nevadicus@dragonsidedd @arstechnica Las Vegas is not the problem as it pertains to how much water is used from Lake Mead.
Las Vegas is one of the most water conscious cities in the world. California and Arizona (and the drought) are the biggest culprits of why Lake Mead is so low.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/us/las-vegas-water-conservation-climate/index.html
John@arstechnica I’m okay with this only because I’m absolutely positive that Elon is angry that it wasn’t 69 miles.
joene 🏴@arstechnica Nothing special. In The Norwegian city of #Tromsø they have underground roads for years......
Lee 🌏@arstechnica
Las Vegas, like the rest of the USA has a car and urban sprawl problem l. Unless cities wake up to this, nothing will get better and traffic and cars will continue to make American cities some of the most ugly and un livable in the world.
Las Vegas, like the rest of the USA has a car and urban sprawl problem l. Unless cities wake up to this, nothing will get better and traffic and cars will continue to make American cities some of the most ugly and un livable in the world.