Coming Full Circle: The Boring Company's Not So Boring Transportation Gamble with the Las Vegas Loop

Authors

Tanner Castro
Jorge Padilla

Document Type

White Paper

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Las Vegas tourists and residents can soon travel in Tesla cars underneath the city in neon-lit tunnels in a project known as the Las Vegas Loop. The Boring Company—an American infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by Elon Musk—is undertaking this “Teslas in Tunnels” project. The Loop plans to connect Downtown Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Strip, Harry Reid International Airport, and various other properties in the Vegas area. Boring seeks to offer a new form of public transit through the Loop to transport passengers across the Vegas area. This White Paper discusses the Loop’s development, compares the Loop to other forms of public transit, reviews different concerns surrounding the project, analyzes the Loop’s benefits and policy implications, and theorizes on the Loop’s future.

Publication Citation

6 Nev. L. J. Forum 28 (2022).

Recommended Citation

Castro, Tanner and Padilla, Jorge (2022) "Coming Full Circle: The Boring Company's Not So Boring Transportation Gamble with the Las Vegas Loop," Nevada Law Journal Forum: Vol. 6, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/nljforum/vol6/iss1/3