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Elon Musk's Vision: Tunneling Through Vegas · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast where we dive into the
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  latest news and Innovations from the world of musk's
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  groundbreaking Ventures. I'm your host will Walden.
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  And in today's episode, we're heading underground to explore
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  the ambitious plans for the boring companies Loop expansion
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  in Las Vegas. Nevada will discuss the proposed
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  65 mile tunnel Network that aims to connect key, destinations,
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  including casinos retail zones and the University of Nevada
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  will also Flooring the challenges and potential impact
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  of this revolutionary transport system on Sin City.
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  So sit back, relax and join us as we journey beneath the
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  streets of Vegas to uncover the details of Elon musk's vision
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  for a Citywide undergroud transport system.
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  Now the boring company is raising the stakes in Las Vegas
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  by proposing a substantial extension of its underground.
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  Transport system, aiming to construct 65 miles Tunnels
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  beneath the city, the plans recently failed with Vegas
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  showcase, an extension network of tunnels, connecting casinos,
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  retail areas University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus and
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  even residential neighborhoods for the first time and the
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  vicious transit system comprises 69 stations 65 miles of tunnels
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  with an unspecified number of Tesla vehicles, providing
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  Transportation through the tunnels now with approved, a
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  loop system. And a station would be situated
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  within a few blocks of almost any Central Las Vegas location.
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  The University of Nevada. The stadium Harry Reid,
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  International Airport would all benefit from multiple stations.
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  Although, none would directly serve the airport's Passenger
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  Terminal now. This proposal also includes a
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  tunnel running parallel to the strip with only a few stations
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  potentially allowing for high-speed Express routes
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  between the city's North and South areas.
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  Similar artery would connect East and West Vegas and the
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  project success depends on overcoming significant financial
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  and logistical challenges in the future.
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  It's going to transform the loop from a small campus transport
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  system to a self-sustaining Citywide Transit Network.
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  Now this is going to be a 15-minute City, let me explain
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  that a little bit, tbc's latest Network map reveals an
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  impressive system that would place a loop station within a
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  few blocks of almost anywhere in central Las Vegas.
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  The University of Nevada would be served by five stations with
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  the stadium home of the Raiders NFL team would receive
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  additional links to the city's West.
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  Now, he read airport would be surrounded by several stations.
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  Though, none would directly serve the Passenger Terminal and
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  a proposed tunnel would run parallel to the strip with a few
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  stations. Potentially enabling a
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  high-speed express route between the city's North and Out there
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  is another artery would connect East and West Las Vegas as well.
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  Now, the first potential challenge is expanding the
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  system from Clark County where the Las Vegas Convention Center
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  the ovc and many strip casinos are located north to the city of
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  Las Vegas. The city has its own regulations
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  and permitting process, the TBC must have navigate and there are
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  indications that this process might not be worth it, it might
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  not be smooth either and on March 8th.
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  A The engineer rejected tbc's initial structure engineering
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  review for the proposed tunnels tbc's, total design would allow
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  buildings to be safely constructed above the tunnels
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  but only up to six stories. The engineer stated this was not
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  acceptable to the city which has additional development plans for
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  the area. The engineer also noted that
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  tbc's designs mixed empirical and sorry Imperial and metric
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  units and reference design. Nerds and building codes from
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  other countries, building deeper or stronger, tunnels to address.
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  Las Vegas is concerns would increase project costs overall
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  They have to fund this, they have to use money to do this and
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  TBC faces, the challenge of funding, the loop system.
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  Without any public funds from construction or operation.
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  And this is a rarity in public transportation as most systems
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  in the United States and around the world rely on some sort of
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  public support. Instead loop system will pay a
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  small fraction of its passenger revenues to the city and Clark
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  County as ridership increases. Now at EBC raised, 55 million
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  dollars in a series C round last year.
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  So they have some funding. Now we don't really know what
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  the leadership of this Rideshare system is going to be doing, but
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  the ridership figures are also unclear the ridership figures
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  for the loop system have been ambiguous at Best in a June Las
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  Vegas, city councilwoman, Olivia Diaz reported that the loop
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  system at the Las. Convention center and seen over
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  700,000 writers since it opened a year earlier however a data
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  extracted by TechCrunch from detailed.
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  Ridership reports indicates that the system had transported just
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  under 500,000 passengers between its opening and mid-july of
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  2022. Now, last week the boring
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  company announced that it had transported, its one millionth
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  passenger, the lvc would not confirm that figure and TBC did
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  not. Respond to a request for comment
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  at this point. Now, only a small portion of
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  those Riders between the Resorts World Casino, and the Lov CC
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  were cash rides with passengers paying a one dollar and fifty
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  cent trip and the majority of rides and the LBCC campus were
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  funded by payments the LBCC made to TBC, which included a fixed
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  monthly payment and variable fees depending on the number of
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  vehicles TBC operated figures for 2021 obtained.
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  Public record, request show that the price per passenger, trip at
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  the convention, center varied considerably, depending on how
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  busy l v CC was in November of twenty Twenty-One during the
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  popular Sima. Car show, the average payment
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  per passenger was only two dollars and 67 cents in
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  September acquired or month. The average cost for a point.
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  Eight mile trip was about twenty three dollars and seventy Two
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  cents. Now, when fully operational TBC,
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  says, the loop could serve up to 57 thousand, passengers an hour
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  with sample, rate, fairs and rates between $6 and $12 per
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  trip. However, the franchise
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  agreements with Clark County and the Las Vegas, give TBC, rain to
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  set, whatever fares it decides. Now, there's environmental
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  concerns about this practice as well.
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  And TBC is now based on the outskirts of Austin, where the
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  But he has built a factory to develop new boring machines and
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  constructing test tunnels last year requested permission to
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  discharge up to 140 2,500 gallons of treated Wastewater
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  directly into the Colorado River.
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  Local residents didn't like that, they objected filing.
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  Nearly 200. Protests ahead of public meeting
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  and one resident urged against letting quote, a public
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  resource, become a private Dumping Ground, so that it
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  Global Elite can add to his profit margin.
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  Now, TBC is reportedly already been served notice of to
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  Wastewater violations. Now, whatever technology is
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  being developed at Austin, likely does not involve
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  self-driving vehicles in the new planning documents, make no
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  pain, no mention of the autonomous vehicles, the musk
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  initially promoted for the loop system.
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  There the human drivers of the loops Tesla Model X and Y,
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  vehicles are critical to the safety and evacuation.
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  Evacuation plans that Clark County approved for the initial
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  lvc, see, loop system and the responsibilities include
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  assisting passengers, along roadways into the egress chefs
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  in case of emergencies underground.
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  While this will inevitably increase cost 40 BC and may
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  reassure passengers concerned about ongoing investigations
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  into Tesla's autopilot Technologies, as well as giving
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  drivers time to inform writers about their their leader Elon
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  Musk. Now, there's some challenges,
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  but they can be overcome now to bring this propeller proposed
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  expansion to life TBC, needs to address.
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  Las Vegas is concerns about Tunnel construction secure
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  funding without public assistance and navigate this
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  City's regulations and permitting process.
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  The ambitious project seeks to make Central Las Vegas 15
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  minutes. City with Loop stations,
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  conveniently located near, a key destinations in the The city.
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  Now despite the hurdles, the potential benefits of a Citywide
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  Network are huge. And as the company continues to
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  refine as technology and plans, the expansion, could prove to be
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  game changer for Vegas, and for transportation infrastructure
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  across the whole United States. So, there's crucial questions
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  that are not answered yet, and it will T be C.
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  Be able to secure the necessary permits and approvals to do
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  this. And how will they fund the Act,
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  will they be able to handle the predicted ridership numbers
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  while being safe and efficient? That's yet to be seen.
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  But there's an ambitious timeline of completing
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  construction by February of 2024.
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