The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done

Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by spookthesunset on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:11PM (#22071783)

That and there was no EPA, no environmental design reviews, not much permitting, lax or zero safety standards (today it is a huge deal when somebody dies on a construction project... no so much back then). There was no ADA accessibility standards, no elevators or required wheelchair access, there was very little underground.

If all the businesses along the block you are trenching through back then went under... so fucking what?

If your 24/7 jackhammers kept all the block up the whole night you’d tell them to take a hike.... etc, etc, etc.

If turns out if you care about any or all of those things, your costs go up. Back then it was all just negative externalities that got foisted on the neighborhoods around them. Think of the negative externalities causes by our interstate highway system. Good luck building that now! It literally divided entire neighborhoods. The entire thing would be require to go into a tunnel under the city. No way would people tolerate that shit now.

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by jacques_chester on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:44PM (#22080899)

While this is all true, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, cut-and-cover is still cheaper than deep tunneling. There's no way around the fact that there is far more expertise, equipment, experience and competition for digging holes compared to digging tunnels.

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