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re: Boring Company expanding Las Vegas operations. Building out for #90,000 rides per hour.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:34 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:34 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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The Waymo concept works pretty well in Atlanta. Rode in one this past Thursday night and was admittedly impressed.
If they can drive on the shitty, dangerous roads in ATL, they can certainly master a straightforward tunnel layout.
The real test they're taking on is New Orleans
One ways, constant traffic re-directs, enormous pot holes, and the "locals".
ETA:
I have been very impressed with Waymo as well though.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 9:35 am
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:36 am to CatfishJohn
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It's cool in theory in Nashville, especially from the airport to downtown, but if I'm a homeowner, I don't want a fricking tunnel being dug underneath my house. Or a commercial real estate holder.
literally going under city property and don't you think they figured this out already?
how do you feel about water mains?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:37 am to ATrillionaire
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At some pt, Elon will have to accept LiDAR. I shite on the slow progress The Boring Company is making, but I believe it's 100% private funded, so no issues here. Will be amazing if the vision is ever achieved.
I saw a theory it is all to develop his capability to go to and colonize Mars. Like most of his companies have utility if we're going to go to Mars. AI robots doing construction so they can build infrastructure ahead of humans going, underground transport and eventual habitation, obviously rockets, etc.
I like this theory
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 9:42 am
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:38 am to CAD703X
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literally going under city property and don't you think they figured this out already?
how do you feel about water mains?
I didn't think it was all city property? I read it wasn't. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not anti-Boring tunnel in Nashville, I would just be concerned if it's going underneath property I own.
No idea how I feel about water mains, tbh I've never thought about it. Googled, the biggest mains are 5' and that's a minority of them. They also don't have vehicles going through them. And properties need water, so it's something you just have to deal with. Boring tunnels will be 12' each and there will be 2 of them side by side.
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So there is nothing but city owned property above this line? Interesting.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 9:47 am
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:55 am to SuperSaint
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Wake me up when bypassing traffic on an underground freeway can give me a lap dance and place me a money line wager on the home dog
Why wouldn’t you be able to do that now?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 9:56 am to CatfishJohn
Let's talk about basic differences.
Rock vs. igneous rock vs chalk vs. loose valley fill from talus slopes.
To that add the presence vs. absence vs. occasional deluges of water from monsoons that flow through pores and then drain out.
Las Vegas has barely consolidated sediment and no ground water.
Nashville has solid rock, mostly limestone (not basement igneous etc. rock) and people have well water except where there's "city water".
The chunnel was bored through some of the softer sedimentary rocks.
what happened in washington state: the borer was going through unconsolidated sediments until it hit a man made obstacle that had been buried as the city was built and no one alive remembered it was there.
Rock vs. igneous rock vs chalk vs. loose valley fill from talus slopes.
To that add the presence vs. absence vs. occasional deluges of water from monsoons that flow through pores and then drain out.
Las Vegas has barely consolidated sediment and no ground water.
Nashville has solid rock, mostly limestone (not basement igneous etc. rock) and people have well water except where there's "city water".
The chunnel was bored through some of the softer sedimentary rocks.
what happened in washington state: the borer was going through unconsolidated sediments until it hit a man made obstacle that had been buried as the city was built and no one alive remembered it was there.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:31 am to CatfishJohn
quote:correct. thats a super industrial area and by law they are required to tunnel under the city/state roads which is why its following the route you posted in the pic.
So there is nothing but city owned property above this line? Interesting.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:44 am to CatfishJohn
quote:Ya ever been to Paris, London, NYC, DC…..?
Who knows what sort of property value hit that would cause, what issues you might have from the digging, what issues you might have down the road foundationally
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:45 am to CAD703X
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correct. thats a super industrial area and by law they are required to tunnel under the city/state roads which is why its following the route you posted in the pic.
Well that's cool
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:47 am to soccerfüt
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Ya ever been to Paris, London, NYC, DC…..?
This is moot now that I see this is going under an existing thoroughfare.
But there are tons of risks with boring subway tunnels under existing structures. And yes, I've been to all of those places
Posted on 12/16/25 at 10:50 am to CatfishJohn
quote:i admit i thought it was a dumb idea when i first heard about it but i've warmed to it mainly b/c the people running the nashville airport are clowns and on busy days people abandon their rideshare cars on INTERSTATE 40 AND WALK TO THE AIRPORT.
Well that's cool
after seeing the kind of numbers vegas is doing w/ riders, i'm more in favor.
i think 3 legs(?) at the moment
- downtown/broadway and convention center (MASSIVE BUILDING)
- a leg down broadway/west end to get the mid-town aka "vanderbilt u" traffic
- a leg UNDER the cumberland river to get titans stadium & east nashville traffic
those are all very heavy areas for tourists and business travellers which are the leading causes of airport traffic congestion now.
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