From Gizmodo, May 4:
Elon Musk's boring boondoggle will keep digging and digging and digging.
Las Vegas city officials have approved The Boring Company’s request to expand its planned network of underground tunnels. The Las Vegas Loop will now feature a total of 69 stations and 65 miles, or 104 kilometers, of tunnels.
The Boring Company tweeted the news yesterday evening, following a meeting with the Clarke County Zoning Commission yesterday morning. The Las Vegas Loop was set to feature a combined 34 miles, or 55 kilometers, of tunnels and had stations that predominantly ran along the Las Vegas Strip. The Boring Company then asked in March to expand the Las Vegas loop, with the newly approved expansion adding 18 new stations and about 25 miles, 40 kilometers, of additional tunnels, according to a tweet from the county’s official account yesterday.
“This is a 100% developer funded project that will reduce traffic trips from our surface street public roadways, it will provide folks another easy and convenient alternative to get around, and as part of our revenue sharing agreement with the Boring Company, they will end up paying the City for use of our right of way,” Las Vegas Executive Director of Infrastructure Mike Janssen told Gizmodo in an email. “So, I am excited to see the project continue to grow.”
Attorney Stephanie Allen, representing the Boring Company, told county commissioners at yesterday’s meeting that the Las Vegas loop currently has 2.2 miles constructed with 5 operational stops—four at the Las Vegas Convention Center and one at Resorts World. Allen further told commissioners that 1 million passengers have ridden through the network so far, with peak ridership in one day reaching over 32,000.....
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We've been following The Boring Company for a while, almost since Day 1 see:
June 2018
"Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid"
I guess it's official, Mr. Musk is an impresario, joining the ranks of
Ziegfeld and Tyler Perry where you have to preface the company or
production with the guy's name.
March 2017
Like
the 60 Year Old Prostitutes Dressed As Lady Gaga In the Rue
Saint-Denis, Elon Musk's Boring Company May Be More Interesting For the
Packaging Than the Product (TSLA)
Jan. 2017
Elon Musk Is Serious About Starting A Boring Company
Dec. 2016
Elon Musk Considering A Boring Company
The heartbreak of both Chicago Mayoral candidates coming out against the tunnel to O'Hare, the thrill of the flamethrower kickoff.
The effect on the media:
Elon Musk Parody Twitter Account Concedes Defeat, Considering Making Tweets Private (TSLA)
Yes, we've been tracking this one for a while. The December 2016 post "Elon Musk Considering A Boring Company" foreshadowed a bit of recursive genius.
And sadly, the Bored Elon Musk Twitter account, though still public, can't keep up with Elon any longer and has had to pivot. Keeping up with reality can be so difficult, as I, the Babylon Bee, The Pan-Arabian Enquirer, Ambrose Bierce, Jonathon Swift and so many others over the years have found. Here's the Pan-Arabian Enquirer:
Editors at semi-popular Middle East satire news website The Pan-Arabia Enquirer yesterday revealed that they had “given up” in their long-running struggle to keep ahead of reality.The PAE attempted a comeback in 2018 but as the poet said "The dogs bark but the caravan moves on"
The announcement came following last week’s news that labourers working in Qatar had been coerced into taking part in a marathon, with many bussed in from their dormitories and forced to run in jeans and flip-flops as part of a failed bid to break the world record for number of participants.
“Honestly, simply cannot compete in these sorts of conditions,” said Enquirer acting editor Baltimore Stafford in a statement.
“Over the years, we’ve had to deal with a growing trend of real-life trying to outdo satire, especially in Saudi Arabia, but this is beyond our capabilities. To be honest, we could have probably worked around the whole ‘labourers forced to take part in marathon’ bit, but with the addition of flip-flops, jeans and the fact it was a shambolic attempt to break a record, we’ve had to concede defeat.”
