The Boring Company's Las Vegas Loop Achieves New Milestone
TapTechNews May 26th news, Elon Musk's tunneling company, The Boring Company, has achieved another milestone - the passenger volume of the first loop in Las Vegas has exceeded 2 million people. Just one year later, this number has doubled compared to before.
After the Boring Company announced in March last year that its Las Vegas loop passengers exceeded 1 million people, this underground loop located in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the first project of the Boring Company's underground transportation network and is currently in the operating stage.
Las Vegas Loop is just the first step in the Boring Company's grand blueprint. The company has obtained the construction permit for another 81 stations (LasVegasLoop) in Las Vegas. The entire network is called Las Vegas Loop. The Boring Company is working intensively to extend from the LVCC tunnel to the upcoming new stations. On its official website, you can see the map of the approved stations, and the completed LVCC loop is marked in orange.
In order to solve the maddening traffic congestion problem, the road must enter the three-dimensional era, the Boring Company's official website wrote. This means we need flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are not affected by the weather and run underground and won't fall on your head.
Tunnels can minimize the use of precious surface land and will not conflict with the existing transportation system. A huge tunnel network can relieve traffic congestion in any city; no matter how big the city grows, tunnel levels can be continuously added.
TapTechNews noticed that in January this year, it was reported that the Boring Company also purchased a new 1.8-acre land in Las Vegas to expand the Las Vegas Loop and connect it with multiple planned stations around the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.
According to the information of the LVCC loop on the Boring Company's official website, the tunnel's peak-hour capacity can reach 4,500 people per hour, and the daily capacity is about 32,000 people. In addition to the Las Vegas project, the Boring Company also uses its Prufrock tunnel boring machine (TBM) to build underground passages at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.