The Boring Company has been busy lately. Just a few days after news surfaced that the Loop will soon allow for six-minute journeys costing just $12 to Harry Reid International Airport from the Strip, it has emerged that Elon Musk’s company also wants to connect Las Vegas with Reno in Northern Nevada. As opposed to a series of underground tunnels, this would involve a high-speed Hyperloop tube system:
Passengers would ride inside the electric pods through vacuum tubes at speeds of about 600 miles per hour. The drive from the Las Vegas Strip to the centre of Reno is 440 miles and typically takes 7 hours by car. At 600 miles per hour, the journey time would reduce to 44 minutes.
The Boring Company President, Steve Davis, said:
a ticket price of about $100 is feasible.
First though, The Boring Company intends complete its 68 miles of Loop in Las Vegas, which will mean 104 stations accessible between the Strip and downtown. The finish date is slated for 2028 or 2029. This would then extend out to the suburbs of Summerlin and Henderson. To sell the idea to locals in those towns, the Boring Company offered to create a one-mile demonstration tunnel.
The next step would be going city to city. A line between Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas has been proposed as no major interstate currently connects the two cities.
