No, Vegas ordered a scaled down version. It's in the contracts.
"as expensive as traditional tunnels"
haha, no. show me the numbers. actually let me do that for you.
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This is a nonsense comparison---I said TUNNELS, not mass transit systems. The actual tunnels the boring company are digging are not cheaper, they are in fact about the same price as traditional tunnels. Musk has claimed he will make them "100 times cheaper", that's a flat out lie
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What "traditional tunnels" are you talking about? Where's your numbers? You're making accusations without any evidence to back anything up. Boring Company tunnels take $10 million/mile to dig. Rest of the money is spent on building stations.
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Nah, you are just believing the hot air and hype when most industry experts know all of this is total nonsense. Their "Test" tunnel where they obtained that number was conducted on nearly ideal conditions, and was not realistic at all.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news
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"CEO of Herrenknecht, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of tunnel boring machines"
LOL you're going to quote a guy who's threatened because TBC figured out a way to modify their competitor's boring machine to make it faster.
OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO BAD MOUTH IT
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Still waiting on numbers for your "traditional tunnel" cost
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They are in the table which you refuse to look at since you are too big brained.
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IN USA you absolute dimwit. You know, a place where we have extra red tape and stupid unions that require more labor than you actually need
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Again, you aren't actually addressing the point. Musk citing "Per mile" for a tiny tunnel that is totally out of the range useful for mass transit systems is obviously not useful. Also the REAL cost depends on other factors like rock material, location, etc.
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No, because you don't need a bigger tunnel for the cars.
And when a car doesn't have to stop at 11 different stops to your destination, average travel time is less and therefore a car can make more trips per hour.
