CityNerd | Inside the Las Vegas Loop: Transportation Game-Changer, or Complete Waste of Time and Effort? @CityNerd | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Perhaps you've heard about the Las Vegas Loop, an invention of Elon Musk's THE Boring Company, currently connecting the three main halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) with Teslas as the vehicles of choice. Today's video gives you a first-hand look at the LVCC Loop, looking at how the tunnel system operates, asking whether it's useful, and looking at future plans.

What this video does NOT include -- which you might've seen in viral videos around the time of the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show -- is a Vegas Loop traffic jam. In fact, what your intrepid videographer uncovered was exactly the opposite: either a little-used system on what should have been a busy convention day (the National Automobile Dealer's Association), or a system that was simply shut down for the day.

We'll look at long-range plans for a 51-station network of Tesla tunnels centered around the Las Vegas Strip, and we'll investigate the next phase of Las Vegas Loop: a one-way tunnel from the Las Vegas Convention Center's West Hall to the new Resorts World casino hotel, a quarter of a mile away on the Strip.

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Other recommended (and often hilarious) videos on the LVCC Loop:
- "The VEGAS LOOP: Just As Stupid As You Think" @AdamSomething youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c&t=320s
- "DEBUNKING THE VEGAS LOOP" @commonsenseskeptic youtube.com/watch?v=-RPMt_FS-s8
- "Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop could have been great" @Engadget youtube.com/watch?v=A-SC2vtulvQ
- "First Look & Ride Inside Las Vegas Convention Center Loop" from Las Vegas Sun: youtube.com/watch?v=xUoZCUqbCNg&t=192s

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Other CityNerd Videos referenced:
- Las Vegas trams and monorails: youtu.be/u5lqV7y2KXw
- The Exclusive Bus Lane, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal: youtu.be/SEme-kqbJFw
- Busiest Bridges and Tunnels in the US: youtu.be/HbZXtSnabWc

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Resources:
- tunnelingonline.com/lvcva-board-approves-boring-company-proposal-for-las-vegas-convention-center
- singularityhub.com/2020/02/20/elon-musks-boring-company-finishes-first-tunnel-for-155mph-vegas-loop
- techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-might-only-carry-a-fraction-of-the-passengers-it-promised
- forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#55694d433d78
- fox5vegas.com/2022/04/28/whats-holdup-vegas-loop-station-debut-resorts-world-fox5-works-find-answers
- clarkcounty-nv.elaws.us/code/coor_title22_ch22.16
- nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=130
- files.clarkcountynv.gov/clarknv/Doing%20Business/Franchisees%20&%20Licensees/The%20Boring%20Company%20Franchise%20Agreement%202021%20-%20Signed1.pdf
- boringcompany.com/resorts-world
- wired.com/story/uber-gives-up-self-driving-dream

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Image Credits:
- Video credit - "First Look & Ride Inside Las Vegas Convention Center Loop" from Las Vegas Sun: youtube.com/watch?v=xUoZCUqbCNg&t=192s
- New Beetle (green) Image by djedj from Pixabay
- New Beetle (red) Image by Emilian Robert Vicol from Pixabay
- Dirty new beetle By Thomas doerfer - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3276989

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