[martamoreno2]

Is this for real? They are basically getting orgasms just because someone drills a tunnel, which is indeed revolutionary for public transportation... And it transports a whopping 4500 people per hour, will you think of that! That is almost as much as a normal, 100 year old subway train can do in a few minutes.

[m463]

Don't subways and other rail projects routinely cost a billion dollars?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...

[ilitirit]

I don't know a lot about the background of this project or the region. Why has it taken this long for a tunnel to be built in LV? Was/is it not considered necessary?

[Traster]

It's pretty much misleading to describe this as a Los Vegas tunnel to be honest. What they're actually doing is building a small shuttle system to get from one side of a convention centre to the other. The total length of the tunnel will be 1 mile. So in terms of what this project does, it's best compared to the sorts of bus systems, monorails, and light rail systems that airports use to transport people from one terminal to another. There's a reason these small funky transit systems are only used on small scales.

It's not comparable to real mass transit systems used on the scale of a city and the length of the tunnel means that the public really can't view the cost of this as comparable to the cost of a real Subway system tunnel or road tunnel.

The relevance of the project for TBC is that they're going to learn from it, but for the rest of us it's really not going to be that interesting.

[asdff]

About as much capacity as a bus lane for point of reference. I wonder what is cheaper: a can of paint, or boring into the living earth?

[adrianN]

In terms of political capital it's probably cheaper to bore a tunnel than to take away a lane for cars.