Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
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Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.

Summary

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is rapidly expanding the “Vegas Loop,” a 68-mile underground Tesla-based transit system approved with minimal public input and regulatory oversight.

Backed by the Las Vegas tourism authority, the project bypasses federal environmental reviews and standard public transit scrutiny.

Despite safety, labor, and environmental violations, Boring faces modest fines and continues construction.

Critics, including former Mayor Carolyn Goodman, highlight concerns over safety, accessibility, and untested technology, but local officials and businesses support the project, viewing it as a vital traffic solution.

The Loop may set a precedent for deregulated infrastructure projects.

  • Dogiedog64
    26•1 day ago

    Bro, Las Vegas is gonna collapse for this shit. “Let’s just drill a bunch of random tunnels beneath our DESERT CITY with no oversight or plan, THAT’LL GO WELL!!!” - a moron. When the ground gives out and half the strip collapses into it, I doubt Musk will pay the fees for it.

    • @nickiwest
      2•20 hours ago

      If the tunnel has decent structural integrity, Musk will be long dead before he would need to pay the piper on this one.

      50 years from now, teenagers in Las Vegas will tell stories about the “secret tunnels under the city.” And at some point a very expensive building is going to collapse into a tunnel and the kids will be shocked that the urban legend was real.

      And everyone will have basically forgotten that Elon Musk was responsible for, and later abandoned, this ill-conceived vanity project.

    • @x00zEnglish
      10•1 day ago

      Creating a strong tunnel is the easy part though. The hardest part is the boring itself and safety for people in the tunnel. Tunnel fires are far more common than a collapsing tunnel. So I’d be more scared of the extremely dangerous firehazard you’ll be cruising in at high speeds than the tunnel itself.

      • @[email protected]
        12•1 day ago

        There is no high speed, it’s not a hyperloop, it’s just some Teslas bumbling through tunnels, sometimes successfully.

        • @[email protected]
          4•21 hours ago

          Teslas tend to get very toasty when crashing? I’m not sure I’d want to be in a tunnel with a lot of them. Imagine if it’ll become like the Salang Tunnel after a while?