Posted on: January 1, 2026, 06:06h.
Last up to date on: January 1, 2026, 06:06h.
Limited airport drop-offs are actually out there through the Vegas Loop, in line with a social media publish from Elon Musk’s the Boring Company. This marks the primary time the subterranean system, through which Teslas are pushed by means of small tunnels to avoid road visitors, have been permitted to entry airport property.
“Still in the early phases of the program,” a December 30 post on the corporate’s X web site learn, “providing a small number of rides each day.”
These airport journeys originate solely from the Resorts World and Westgate stations for now. For $12 — about one-third the value of a journey share or taxi — every journey delivers passengers by means of accomplished parts of the Vegas Loop earlier than taking floor streets to airport terminals 1 or 3. The rides shall be provided till the dual tunnels connecting the Vegas Loop to the airport are accomplished — supposedly in Q1 of this 12 months.
Drop‑offs happen on the departures curb between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. every day. Airport pickups is not going to be out there till transponders figuring out the autos to airport safety are put in in every car, the Boring Company mentioned, although it didn’t present a timeline for that. (The pickups will happen within the limousine and shuttle areas exterior the Zero ranges of Terminals 1 and three.)
Regulators authorized these combined tunnel/floor journeys in late 2025, with the Nevada Transportation Authority capping floor journey at 4 miles per journey and requiring that every route nonetheless embrace tunnel mileage.
Tunnel Vision
Once the two.25-mile Airport Connector is full, airport journeys will shift virtually totally underground. The spur will connect with the University Center Loop, now below development beneath Paradise Road, which is able to add stations at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the Howard Hughes Center, UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center and the Sphere.
The Vegas Loop has over 10 miles of tunnels dug, with about 4 miles operational — connecting stations at Encore, Resorts World, Westgate, and the Vegas Convention Center. Some routes — resembling Encore to Westgate — have used self‑driving Teslas since October, although all at present function with a human “safety driver” onboard.
The Boring Company plans to finally join the complete vacationer hall — from the Allegiant stadium within the south to downtown Las Vegas within the north — through a 68-mile underground net of 104 Vegas Loop stations already authorized by Clark County and the City of Las Vegas.
