The Boring Company's LVCC Loop West Hall to Central Hall Front Seat Ride POV

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In March 2019, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) recommended The Boring Company for a system to shuttle visitors in a loop underneath the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), to be completed by 2021, with the potential for future expansion along the Las Vegas Strip and to Allegiant Stadium and McCarran International Airport. In May 2019, the company won a $48.7 million project to do so. In September, on-site preparations for the tunnel project were reported, and construction started in October. The project in the end used two Prufrock machines. The second was assembled and brought online in August 2021.
Boring of the first tunnel, 4,475 feet (1,364 m) long, began on November 15 and completed 91 days later on February 14, 2020, for an average speed of 49 feet (15 m) per day. For comparison, the Second Avenue tunnel in New York City, which was completed in 2017, averaged between 40 and 50 feet per day. In May 2020, the boring of the second tunnel was completed, for a total of 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of tunnels.
The tunnel was unveiled in mid-April 2021 with regular Tesla Model 3 and Model X cars used for shuttling, running at about 35 miles per hour (56 km/h). The service was described as "embarrassing"and "lame",due to comparisons with earlier promises of "electric autonomous vehicles with alignment wheels".
Testing with a large number of volunteers in late May 2021 showed the system could transport 4,400 passengers per hour, though the highest traffic the LVCC Loop has transported in an uncontrolled setting was reached in July 2021 at 1,355 passengers per hour. The system started transporting attendees of a convention center exhibition on June 8, 2021. The target for the project was to reduce a 25-minute walk to a 2-minute ride, but additional data revealed in November 2021 demonstrated that the average trip time in any day has never reached below 3 minutes. In January 2022, video taken during CES 2022 captured a traffic jam at the LVCC.
Private tunnels to convention center
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Following the completion of the two tunnel bores for the LVCC in May 2020, two Las Vegas strip hotels, Encore and Resorts World Las Vegas, applied to regulators in June to obtain permits for The Boring Company to dig private tunnels to allow direct access between each resort hotel and the LVCC.
As of December 2020, plans for a 2-mile tunnel to Flamingo, Paris Las Vegas, the High Roller, Planet Hollywood and Bally's called the "Caesars loop" were submitted
As of May 2021, the tunnel to Resorts World had broken ground, and the tunnel to Encore had been approved.
As of February 2022, the tunnel surfaced in Resorts World.
Resort corridor
In October 2021, the Clark County Commissioners approved a 50-year franchise agreement for the construction of a much-larger mostly-underground system in the Las Vegas area, a "15-mile dual loop system. ...operating mainly in the Resort Corridor with stations at various resorts and connections to Allegiant Stadium and the UNLV [University of Nevada, Las Vegas]." The county approved the alignment for the proposed route, but separate land use permits for the 51 planned stops, and City of Las Vegas approval for the part of the system that runs underground in the city, are required. As permitting is completed, TBC planned to build out five to ten stations during the first year, and then add approximately 15 stations per year thereafter. The Boring Company would be responsible for funding tunnel construction, with station costs funded by the resort properties and location owners.
Longer-term plans of The Boring Company and some developers include linking the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran International Airport.
Company History
The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services company founded by Elon Musk. Its ongoing and proposed projects are designed for intra-city ("loop") transit systems.
TBC has completed two tunnels in Las Vegas for loop travel. It has also completed one tunnel for testing loop travel in Los Angeles County. Other tunnels are in various stages of discussion and planning.
Musk cited difficulty with Los Angeles traffic, and what he sees as limitations of its two-dimensional transportation network, as his early inspiration for the project. The Boring Company was formed as a subsidiary of SpaceX, becoming a separate and fully independent company in 2018. As of December 2018, 90% of the equity was owned by Musk, with 6% held by SpaceX in return for the use of SpaceX resources during the startup of the company. Outside investments during 2019 have changed the equity split.

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