---
title: "Elon Musk: Las Vegas Tunnel Will Be “Operational by End of Year”"
description: "Elon Musk took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce that the Boring Company plans to complete a Las Vegas tunnel by the end of 2019."
date: "2019-03-12"
modified: "2019-03-12"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-las-vegas-tunnel"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "las vegas"
  - "the boring company"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk: Las Vegas Tunnel Will Be “Operational by End of Year”

![Elon Musk took to Twitter Tuesday to announce that the Boring Company plans to complete a tunnel in Las Vegas by the end of 2019.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas.png>)
*\<em\>Image: skeeze/Getty Images/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Tunnel Vision

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk [took to Twitter](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1105556139184410626>) Tuesday to announce that his other venture, the Boring Company, plans to complete a Las Vegas tunnel by the end of 2019.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1105556139184410626

## Vegas, Baby

Futurism [reported last week](<https://futurism.com/las-vegas-convention-center-boring-company>) that the Las Vegas tourism board had expressed interest in hiring the Boring Company to dig an underground tunnel system that would be free for passengers, which might connect locations as far-flung as the city's iconic Las Vegas Strip and its airport.

"It’s really innovative," president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Steve Hill [told the *Associated Press*](<https://phys.org/news/2019-03-elon-musk-firm-pitched-transit.html>) at the time. "I think it will be an attraction in and of itself, frankly."

## Confirmation

Just an hour before Musk's tweet, *Bloomberg* reported that Vegas officials had voted to move ahead on talks of a Las Vegas tunnel with the Boring Company.

Whether Musk's tweet means that a more concrete deal has been reached isn't yet clear.

**READ MORE:** [Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Could Be Coming to Las Vegas](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/elon-musk-s-boring-co-could-be-coming-to-las-vegas>) \[*Bloomberg*\]

**More on the Boring Company:** *[The Boring Company’s Chicago Tunnel Project Might Soon be Dead](<https://futurism.com/boring-company-chicago-tunnel-project-dead>)*

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

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