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Elon Musk’s Vegas Tunnel Project Has Been Racking Up Safety Violations
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Man, I keep getting this incredibly Mandela-effect like feeling that this entire Vegas tunnel project was something I made up.
Glad to see news that it wasn't. The idea is just so colossally and obviously stupid compared to actual transit investment that it really FEELS like something a lefty type would've made up as a hypothetical to illuminate the kind of idiotic shit happens in American urban planning.
Well, I've heard the theory that Musk made this project up, because the city wanted to build like a proper subway or something. He didn't need this ridiculous tunnel to actually work. He just needed to derail (pun intended) the sensible infrastructure project, so he could sell more shoddy cars.
You think he would develop and build a whole tunnel boring machine and dig through Vegas just to sell a handful more cars? It's not like the people potentially buying Teslas in the US would even consider going for a subway instead. If anything those people might use the subway in addition to driving a Tesla.
Opposition to sane transit is real and Musk admitted this.