Elon Musk company to build underground transit loop for Las Vegas Convention Center
by Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2019
3 minutes
Billionaire Elon Musk finally has a chance at completing a commercial tunneling project after his Boring Co. secured a $48.7-million contract to build a transit system for Las Vegas' expanding convention center.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's 14-member board approved the contract Wednesday afternoon, taking a gamble on the young Hawthorne company, which has not completed a commercial project.
The system, called a "people mover," will carry passengers in autonomous electric vehicles via a roughly mile-long loop under
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