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The Boring Company
Company hub for The Boring Company, separating operating Vegas Loop stations from approved mileage, proposed stations, and company capacity claims.
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The Boring Company digs tunnels and operates the Vegas Loop, a system of Tesla vehicles in those tunnels. A station on a map, a station under construction, and a station that carries passengers are different facts.
Overview
The public system that can be checked against more than one page is in Las Vegas. The original piece is the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop. A wider Vegas Loop connects some Strip properties and, on the company’s map, airport terminals. City proposals outside Las Vegas stay proposed until a local approval and a company page agree that something was built.
Musk role
Musk is the founder and the public face. Day-to-day tunnel operations are the company’s, and the president named in local reporting on permitting is Steve Davis. That reporting is labeled below. It is not a filing.
What is operating, by source
Two primary pages describe the convention-center loop, and they do not use identical numbers. Both are quoted as their own claims.
| Source | What it says |
|---|---|
| The Boring Company, LVCC Loop | Original system about 1.7 miles and three stations, built in about a year for about $47 million on a firm-fixed price. Opened April 2021 for the Mecum auction. Company says it has shown a peak above 4,500 passengers per hour and above 32,000 in a day. In 2024 the company says it expanded the loop to 2.1 miles and five stations. |
| LVCVA | About 2 miles of tunnel and five stations on the convention-center campus, using electric Tesla vehicles. Designed to move more than 4,400 attendees per hour. Trips inside the campus are free. Trips off campus need a ticket. |
Use “designed to” for the LVCVA hourly figure and “demonstrated peak” for the company’s higher figure. They are not the same measurement.
The Resorts World connector is a company page calling that link complete and operational, opened in 2022, with trips of about 2 to 5 minutes depending on destination.
The Vegas Loop project page is the company’s network snapshot. When checked for this page it listed 14 stations it called active, including five convention-center stations, Resorts World, Encore, Westgate, Fontainebleau, Sahara, two airport terminals, and Turnberry Towers, plus a longer “opening soon” list. It also said the system had carried more than 4 million passengers and that rides between stations take about 2 to 8 minutes. Those passenger and timing figures are company operating claims.
Approved versus built
On that same project page the company says Clark County and the City of Las Vegas have approved 68 miles of tunnel and 123 stations. That sentence is the company’s account of public approvals. It is not a count of miles in service. The page’s own “by the numbers” block separates today’s station count from a larger end-of-year figure, which is the right way to read it: planned growth is not current service.
Local news has described county safety rules for the tunnels. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that county commissioners adopted an amended ordinance covering design, construction, and operation, including sensors, cameras, suppression, and ventilation, and that Boring Company representatives have described a long permit cycle. Treat the ordinance detail as Reported until you are reading the county code itself. A later Review-Journal report said the company announced 19 more station entitlements, bringing a company total to 123, and quoted a county spokesperson on permitting. That is news about a company announcement, not this site’s inspection of the hearing record.
Claim rules
- “Open” and “active” follow the company or LVCVA page that says so, with the date checked.
- Cost per mile, outside the $47 million firm-fixed-price figure the company states for the original convention-center loop, is not inferred here.
- Ridership needs a dated company or authority number. The 4 million passenger line is a company cumulative claim, not an audited fare report.
- A safety incident needs a primary report. None is established on this page.
The station-level notes live on Vegas Loop. The July 20, 2017 “verbal govt approval” post, the Guardian’s account of what the cities said, and Mr. Musk’s October 19, 2026 reply are the East Coast permits page. That reply is his sentence. It is not a permit file.
Sources
- The Boring Company
- LVCC Loop
- Vegas Loop project page
- Resorts World connector
- LVCVA Vegas Loop page
- Review-Journal, county ordinance — Reported
- Review-Journal, additional stations — Reported
Related
- East Coast tunnel, the 2017 post and the October 19 reply (checked Oct. 19, 2026). “Verbal govt approval” is the post. “Permits were impossible to get” is the later reply
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