{"id":100984,"date":"2020-01-17T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-boring-companys-las-vegas-tunnel-is-nearly-50-done"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:47:12","slug":"the-boring-companys-las-vegas-tunnel-is-nearly-50-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-boring-companys-las-vegas-tunnel-is-nearly-50-done","title":{"rendered":"The Boring Company\u2019s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-boring-companys-las-vegas-tunnel-is-nearly-50-done.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company has made plenty of progress with its Las Vegas Convention Center people mover. The underground tunnel is now about 50% complete and around six football fields in length, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The Boring Company officially started tunneling for the people mover after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/?s=boring\">ceremonial groundbreaking event on November 15<\/a>. In just two months, the project is nearly halfway completed.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has been 40 feet underground for months and is working to drill two, one-mile-long tunnels. Boring Company began shipping portions of the TBM to the site in Las Vegas in September. Since then, the project has really started to take shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Boring Company has made plenty of progress with its Las Vegas Convention Center people mover. The underground tunnel is now about 50% complete and around six football fields in length, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The Boring Company officially started tunneling for the people mover after a ceremonial groundbreaking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}