The Boring Company has reached another two milestones as it develops its underground transport system in Las Vegas. The company announced on Monday that Prufrock-1 and Prufrock-2 had arrived at Westgate and Encore near the Las Vegas Strip.
Prufrock-2 has arrived at the Encore Resort @EncoreLasVegas @LVCVA pic.twitter.com/umq5roKsTf
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) July 11, 2023
Prufrock-1 has arrived at the Westgate Resort @WestgateVegas @LVCVA pic.twitter.com/YU7YilaWGh
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) July 11, 2023
Prufrock-2, one of the company’s digging machines, reached Encore within a remarkable timeframe of 10 weeks. During that time the company was able to mobilize, launch, tunnel a distance of 2,350 feet underground, and retrieve the massive machine. In comparison, one of their original digging machines utilized for the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop, GODOT, took 10 weeks just to launch.
Encore project (Prufrock-2) took approx. 10 weeks with the starting point of “arrive at empty parking lot.” Mobilization, launch, tunneling (2350 ft), and retrieval. Good step towards building infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks versus years. pic.twitter.com/KF548cvmsX
— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) July 11, 2023
The arrival of Prufrock-1 at Westgate and Prufrock-2 at Encore represents another key milestone for the Vegas Loop project. Recently, The Boring Company received approval from the Las Vegas planning commission to expand the Vegas Loop. In May Clark County commissioners gave approval to expand the network by 25 miles (40km), which will extend the underground tunnel system to 65 miles (105km) with 18 new stations.
