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The Elon Musk tunnel project reaches a milestone. But the future is unclear.
He created the Boring Company to pursue his transit vision. One of the projects, which featured two tunnels along the one mile in Las Vegas, was completed last month. When it opened for business in January 2021, a little of its original vision would be realized. Passengers will enter Tesla – driven by other humans, not transported by an autonomous sled – and driven at a top speed of 35 miles per hour, according to Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Steve Hill.
The system will depend on Tesla Models 3s and Xs. Trams built on the Model 3 chassis carrying 12-16 passengers can be introduced later, according to Hill. He hopes the vehicles will eventually drive independently, once they are proven safe. Hill said he wasn’t sure how long it would take.
Boring Company and Musk representatives did not respond to CNN Business’s request for comment.
The newly completed tunnel can eventually be extended to the greater Las Vegas, providing travel between casinos, resorts, residential neighborhoods, sports stadiums, and airports. Two resorts, Wynn Las Vegas and Resorts World Las Vegas, submitted expansion plans this month to local governments for approval. Both are located about a mile from the Convention Center.
Construction can begin later this year, awaiting approval. Rates will be affordable, according to a spokesman for Resorts World Las Vegas, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2021. No further details about the proposed expansion have been released.
Hill said that tickets will cost from $ 3 to $ 5, making it more expensive than bus tickets. Travel by a single bus can be $ 3 or less in Las Vegas, and a monthly bus ticket can be obtained for $ 65.
The Boring Company has released a map of how the Loop can be extended, with 27 more stops in Las Vegas, and an extension to Los Angeles. However, the proposal has not yet come out of the drawing board. So far it seems that it’s only a proposal without entering from Las Vegas.
A spokesman for McCarran International Airport said there was nothing formal in the work for new airport connections to the Strip or convention center. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman declined to comment on this story.
While the current reality does not fit Musk’s initial vision, Las Vegas leaders are excited about the potential for expansion, which they see as a cost-effective way to improve local transportation.
“We have seen the subway system, we have seen the monorail, we have seen the light rail,” Hill said. “It’s not because we haven’t thought anything. It’s because we don’t have room for it or we can’t afford it.”
A monorail, for example, can cost $ 100 million per mile, he said. Boring Company has not requested public funding, and thinks it can dramatically reduce tunneling costs.
Meanwhile, besides Las Vegas, several other Loop projects from the Boring Company are slowly moving forward. If completed, they will operate at a lower speed, with a 155 mph cap.
One example, his project between DC and Baltimore is under environmental review, according to a spokesman for the Federal Highway Administration. A federal government website that tracks infrastructure project permits has described the review as completed by the end of 2019. The spokesman declined to say why the review appeared to be delayed.
If the Boring Company is cleared to continue the DC project to the New York Hyperloop, the curved route south of Baltimore will make it technically unrealistic to maintain the high speed projected by Musk, according to Christian Claudel, a transportation engineering professor at the University of Texas-Austin who has advised students on Hyperloop project. Given how sharp the curves are on the project map, G forces will be too strong for fighter pilots, he said.
But in Vegas, interest remains high to see what the Boring Company can do, if it develops.
“From my reasoning, it’s only a matter of time,” said Jeremy Aguero, spokesman for the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board. “The world is likely to be very important for Southern Nevada and perhaps beyond.”
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Portuguese historical films will premiere on 29 December.
Method Media Bermuda will present the documentary FABRIC: Portuguese History in Bermuda on Thursday, December 29 at the Underwater Research Institute of Bermuda.
A spokesperson said: “Method Media is proud to bring Bermuda Fabric: Portugal History to Bermuda for its 5th and 6th showing at the Bermuda Underwater Observatory. In November and December 2019, Cloth: A Portuguese Story in Bermuda had four sold-out screenings. Now that Bermuda has reopened after the pandemic, it’s time to bring the film back for at least two screenings.
“There are tickets Ptix.bm For $ 20 – sessions at 15:30 and 18:00. Both screenings will be followed by a short Q&A session.
Director and producer Milton Raboso says, “FABRIC is a definitive account of the Portuguese community in Bermuda and its 151 years of history, but it also places Bermuda, Acors and Portugal in the world history and the events that have fueled those 151 years.
“It took more than 10 years to implement FABRIC. The film was supported by the Minister of Culture, the Government of the Azores and private donors.
“Bermuda Media Method [MMB] Created in 2011 by producer Milton Raposo. MMB has created content for a wide range of clients: Bermuda’s new hospital renovation, reinsurance, travel campaigns, international sports and more. MMB pays special attention to artistic, cultural and historical content.
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CRISTANO RONALDO CAN MAKE UP A GIANT IN CARIOCA AND PORTUGUESE TECHNICIAN SAYS ‘There will be room’
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Maestro de Braga is the first Portuguese in the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba.
Maestro Filipe Cunha, Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Braga, has been invited to conduct the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, as announced today.
According to a statement sent by O MINHO, “he will be the first Portuguese conductor to conduct this orchestra in its entire history.”
In addition to this orchestra, the maestro will also work with the Lyceo Mozarteum de la Habana Symphony Orchestra.
The concerts will take place on 4 and 12 March 2023 at the National Theater of Cuba in Havana.
In the words of the maestro, quoted in the statement, “these will be very beautiful concerts with difficult but very complex pieces” and therefore he feels “very motivated”.
From the very beginning, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 will be performed by an Italian pianist (Luigi Borzillo), whom the maestro wants to bring to Portugal later this year. In the same concert, Mendelshon’s First Symphony will be performed.
Then, at the second concert, in the company of the Mexican clarinetist Angel Zedillo, he will perform the Louis Sfora Concerto No. 2. In this concert, the maestro also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
“This is an international recognition of my work. An invitation that I accept with humility and great responsibility. I was surprised to learn that I would be the first Portuguese member of the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra. This is a very great honor,” the maestro said in a statement.
“I take with me the name of the city of Braga and Portugal with all the responsibility that goes with it, and I hope to do a good job there, leaving a good image and putting on great concerts. These will be very special concerts because, in addition to performing pieces that I love, especially Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, I will be directing two wonderful soloists who are also my friends. It will be very beautiful,” concludes Filipe Cunha.
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