Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight
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Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.

Summary

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is rapidly expanding the “Vegas Loop,” a 68-mile underground Tesla-based transit system approved with minimal public input and regulatory oversight.

Backed by the Las Vegas tourism authority, the project bypasses federal environmental reviews and standard public transit scrutiny.

Despite safety, labor, and environmental violations, Boring faces modest fines and continues construction.

Critics, including former Mayor Carolyn Goodman, highlight concerns over safety, accessibility, and untested technology, but local officials and businesses support the project, viewing it as a vital traffic solution.

The Loop may set a precedent for deregulated infrastructure projects.

  • irotsomaEnglish
    8•4 days ago

    In a decade or two, when cancer rates skyrocket and sinkholes start swallowing buildings, I’m sure they won’t exist anymore to suffer any consequences. Until then, I hope people enjoy their regulation-less sludge tunnels.

    • @leftzero
      1•3 days ago

      when cancer rates skyrocket

      Radon?

      • @[email protected]
        4•3 days ago

        Toxic sludge:

        the company’s stated goal of creating underground networks of ‘hyperloops” that ferry people between cities at the speed of sound has failed to take meaningful shape, amid reports of grisly worker accidents involving falling debris, a malfunctioning forklift, and toxic chemicals that left numerous workers permanently scarred, a Bloomberg investigation revealed Monday.

        • @leftzero
          2•3 days ago

          The. Fuck.

          We’ve been digging holes for millennia without this kind of shit. These days tunnel boring machines practically do the job by themselves without needing to put anyone in danger.

          Is Musk intentionally trying to do this thing in the worst, most inefficient and dangerous way possible in a nostalgic attempt to emulate his father’s apartheid emerald mine or what…!?

          The more I know about this arsehole the less I wish I knew about him, seriously. At this point the only thing I want to know about him is that he died of haemorrhoids.