Musk’s 1st Boring Co. Tunnel ‘Hopefully’ Operational in 2020
The Las Vegas tunnel is Boring Company’s only major project so far other than a mile-long test tunnel in Hawthorne, California.
(Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Elon Musk said the transportation tunnel his startup Boring Co. is building in Las Vegas will “hopefully” be operational next year.
The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer made the comments about the $48.7 million subterranean transit project in the U.S. resort city in Twitter posts late Friday night.
The Las Vegas tunnel is the company’s only major project so far other than a mile-long test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. Pit construction and other preliminary work on the Las Vegas project began in September.
A whimsical poll conducted by Musk via his Twitter page had garnered over a million votes. The trending tweet claims that 69% are in favor of “super safe, earthquake-proof tunnels under cities to solve traffic” versus 13% who said “No, I like traffic.”
Musk said in a separate post that the company will look to work on other projects following the completion of the tunnel’s construction.
The planned transit system would allow users to ride in Tesla electric vehicles below ground from one side of the sprawling convention center to the other in just one minute.
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