The Boring Company’s Prufrock-1 Boring machine successfully bore to the new Resorts World site!
This is only one of many private estates in Las Vegas that have direct access to the LVCC and Vegas Loops.
“We’re one step closer to being able to provide our guests with a handy mode of transportation!”
— courtesy of Resorts World Las Vegas
Prufrock-1 has arrived at Resorts World on the Vegas Strip! Thanks to @ResortsWorldLV@LVCVA@ClarkCountyNV for their amazing support.
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“Tunnel exit at Vegas Loop: 190-meter turn radius on a vertical grade transition.” For the optimum Loop customer experience, Prufrock mobility is important to ensure passenger drop-offs are exceptionally close to hotel main entrances.” The Boring Company is a company that specializes in boring.
Elon Musk, the founder of “The Boring Company,” built the LVCC (Las Vegas Convention Center) Loop, the first Boring Company operating tunnel, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Boring Company specializes in boring underground tunnels at a fraction of the expense of traditional tunnels.
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Loops are the technical name for The Boring Company’s tunnels, which are intended exclusively for electric vehicles. “Loop is an all-electric, zero-emissions, underground public transportation system in which passengers are carried straight to their final destination with no pauses along the way,” according to The Boring Company’s website.
In compared to similar tunnels created with expensive air ventilation systems to keep clean air in the tunnels, the tunnels are substantially more cost effective without the requirement to ventilate them from poisonous CO2.
“Why tunnels?” he was asked. “To overcome the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roadways must go 3D, which implies either flying cars or tunnels are required,” Elon Musk remarked. Tunnels, unlike flying cars, are weatherproof, hidden, and won’t fall on your head.
Tunnels reduce the amount of precious surface land used and do not interfere with current transportation systems. Any city can benefit from a wide network of tunnels; no matter how large a city becomes, more levels of tunnels can be built.”
The Boring Company was founded in 2016 with the goal of alleviating traffic congestion on city streets. Since then, TBC has been working on a number of short tunnel projects within a few big cities.
The Boring Company’s regular 12 foot diameter tunnel, like the one being built just under Vegas, is conventionally intended to fit a Tesla in it.
Godot-Plus and Prufrock, named after TS Eliot’s written work “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” are two massive boring tunnel machines that are responsible for the majority of the digging.
“Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a speed of 1 mile per week, which is 6 times quicker than The Boring Company’s previous generation TBM,” according to the TBC website (Godot-Plus). Prufrock is still 4-5 times slower than a garden snail, but he’s getting there!”
There will be no carbon monoxide from exhaust, long wait times, noisy engines, or bad weather difficulties within the Teslas and tunnels.
Most of the passenger vehicles for the tunnels are Tesla model Ys that can be hailed via a specific app for the Vegas tunnels. For those with specific needs such as a wheelchair, model Xs are available.

Boring Company drivers are currently being employed in the early stages of the tunnels’ opening launch.
The 60-80 vehicle Tesla fleet that will be used in the tunnels exclusively, noted as a Ride Hailing system, will significantly cut back transfer time between different locations in Vegas. What could have been a 45 minute surface street walk will Now be 2-5 minutes. There will be no need to bother walking far or waiting on a corner for transportation help.
The LVCC Loop, is a three-station transportation system consisting of 1.7 miles of tunnels, aimed to be built in approximately one year of beginning construction and tunneling in mid 2019 and ended mid 2020, but due to Covid restrictions and closures wasn’t open to the public until mid 2021. The LVCC Loop cost was $47 million which included two tunnels and three large stations, two surface and one subsurface.
The South Station, Central Station, and West Station are the three stations in the LVCC Loop that anyone can use.
When the entire Vegas Loop is completed, the LVCC Loop will be part of connecting tunnels as well as several casinos.
In terms of the Vegas Boring Tunnel Systems, the LVCC Loop system will carry 4,400 people per hour via three major stations, while the Vegas Loop would transport 57,000 passengers per hour via 51
medium stations.
The Vegas Loop a significantly larger project, is expanding to 29 miles and 51 stations total. Clark County team partnered with the County Commissioners for an unanimous approval of expansion, fall 2021.
The Vegas Loop project was originally planned to be 10.5 miles long, with two parallel tunnels on either side of Las Vegas Boulevard South, totaling 24 miles of tunnels. The tunnels will remain 12 feet in diameter and 40 feet below ground level. The Vegas Loop was supposed to connect about 50 stations in total, but it presently has 51.
This is in addition to prior work that has already begun to link 51 casinos and stations into a single 29-mile underground loop that will transport passengers at a rate of 57,000 people per hour in Teslas.
The tunnels are lit-up with RGB LED lights adding a fun sensory element to the service. The tunnels are outfitted with CCTV video systems, secure wireless communication, passenger cell phone service, blue light stations, fire safety system, ventilation systems, project engineering, codes and permits, environmental engineering .. all part of the packaged TBC projects.
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