Update on everyone's favorite "public transit" project (Vegas Loop) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Rojo27@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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Honestly, I'm just surprised they're even continuing the grift. Then again if all you had to do to make it look like you're doing anything was claim to be adding "stations" with absolutely no infrastructure around it, hell, why not?

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[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

When this thing dries up, will any of the underground tunnels be usable for building a subway someday?

[-] fox@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

The tunnels barely fit a sedan, they certainly won't fit a train

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

could they be bored out? widening a tunnel seems like less earth to move than digging a new tunnel

[-] fox@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

They basically connect a parking lot to a convention center. Doesn't make sense to get a tunnel drilling rig down there when the tunnel doesn't provide much value except whatever the Tesla drivers are paid.

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

I don't know the logistics, but area (the amount of material to bore out) grows by the square of the radius.

Kinda like how a a large pizza is just a few more inches across than a medium size: when you make the hole just a bit wider (and a proper metro would need more than a bit more width), you end up with a lot more material to move than you might expect.

Maybe the logistics part makes sense in an existing tunnel, but I really think you would just start from scratch.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Glasgow subway trains might fit. Those things are extremely tiny.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

They'd probably have to bore a second tunnel since, in Musk and/or The Boring Company's infinite wisdom, only one tunnel was built to handle incoming and outgoing traffic.

This was supposed to be moving 90,000 passengers an hour yea