When this thing dries up, will any of the underground tunnels be usable for building a subway someday?
The tunnels barely fit a sedan, they certainly won't fit a train
could they be bored out? widening a tunnel seems like less earth to move than digging a new tunnel
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.
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.
Glasgow subway trains might fit. Those things are extremely tiny.
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
No
I'm the video they aren't even using tunnels lol, is just a glorified Uber...
I'm not even against the LV Loop in principle, I think it's useful to be trying and testing all sorts of stuff like this. The train gang knows it's stupid, but normies don't, and in the meantime at least a bunch of people are getting useful on-the-job training with tunnel boring machines.
But it is so crazy that evidently zero thought continues to go into the station design? Is there even anyone at the company who's job is to get the stations figured out? Or even just the basic "how do we load and unload passengers".
Ray offhandedly mentions in the video that obviously the ulterior motive is just to disrupt other transit options by sucking oxygen out of the room. But with the mention of some of the continuing funding sources, it makes me wonder if we're missing some sort of obvious government funding source that is keeping this project in the black. The whole situation makes way more sense to me if they have some sort of metric they need to hit on station count expansion, and that unlocks further grants, and so they're focusing on that with no regard for any other aspect of the project. It would track with Musk's other ventures: he seems genuinely good at identifying potentially untapped sources of government largess, and then building large companies to suck on it.
But it is so crazy that evidently zero thought continues to go into the station design? Is there even anyone at the company who's job is to get the stations figured out? Or even just the basic "how do we load and unload passengers".
Ray says that the hotels pay for stations, but I wonder if they also do the design/or consultation for station design themselves.
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