Billionaire Elon Musk's Boring Company holds ceremony in Las Vegas to celebrate the start of drilling for its first commercial project to get underway.
Billionaire Elon Musk's dream of using tunnels as re-imagined people movers kicked off in the real world Friday, as his Boring Company held a ceremony in Las Vegas celebrating the start of drilling for its first commercial project to get underway.
The $53 million twin-tunnel"Loop" system is expected to take visitors to three stops spread across the length of less than a mile, 40 feet below the sprawling and expanding Las Vegas Convention Center. Convention officials said in a statement that digging started in earnest — several test tunnels were already developed — Friday.Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill said getting across the 200-acre convention center site, which has a new addition, its West Hall, under construction, would have otherwise taken as long as 45 minutes by foot and included crossing busy streets.
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