The boring company is trying to build a monorail system in Las Vegas. The first paying customer for about $50 million dollars they were paid to build this system. It's one 12 foot wide tunnel that shuttles three passengers three at a time between the strip and the convention center 1.7 miles away. You can actually ride from the convention center under the strip and you can pop up in a casino across the street now. Alyssa I can't help but think of a particular Simpsons episode where Lyle Landley has done a literal song and dance to sell the idea through and their car is like retching over these potholes. We're twice as smart as the
Elon Musk created The Boring Company to fix traffic, but his fantasy of underground Tesla tunnels is running on empty. Curbed’s Alissa Walker and author Paris Marx explain.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, edited by Matt Collette, and hosted by Noel King.
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