Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, Worst Transit System on Earth

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

The scale is ambitious to the point of stupidity. Once its 104 stations and 68 miles of tunnels are complete, the Vegas Loop site says it "will serve up to 90,000 passengers per hour."

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The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

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#1 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-06-03 08:12 PM | Reply

Adam Something covered it 4 years ago: www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-06-03 08:59 PM | Reply

Monorail!

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-03 09:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Fantastic

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-03 10:05 PM | Reply

*** Worst Person in the World Going to Make More Money for Himself After Screwing Over Las Vegas ***

SpaceX aims to make its stock market debut at $1.77 trillion value

"Elon Musk's space company said in a securities filing that it hopes to sell over 555 million shares at its debut for $135 apiece."

Grand Goniff to Score Again

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-04 12:13 AM | Reply

You support candidates (Republicans, of course) who protect the rich and powerful (men, of course) who rape children. #GOP2026

#6 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 12:15 AM | Reply

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#11 "This drudge.com account was one of the earliest taken by the Israelis 21 years ago."

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#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-04 12:19 AM | Reply

The weird things is, ok, one of the weird things about Musk, is that so much of his wealth comes from the people;s treasury, and truth be told, NASA could have done what he has done by hiring the same magnificent engineers....
Musk is about socialism for the oligarchs. And screw Mars, by the way, it is fool's grift.

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-04 07:00 AM | Reply

Monorail!

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-03 09:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

Las Vegas has one of those too.

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-04 08:25 AM | Reply

NASA could have done what he has done

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-04 07:00 AM | Reply | Flag:

No, they could not. NASA does not do massive amounts of iterative destruction testing. They explode far less. They're also hamstrung by politics.

Also, Musk hired NASA engineers. He cherry picked top talent from the existing rocket industry.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-04 08:30 AM | Reply

"they can't accommodate two lanes of traffic. So we paused for over a minute, waiting for the car coming in the opposite direction to clear the tunnel."

This "transit system of the future" wouldn't have made it into a 1900s Popular Mechanics.

#11 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-06-04 12:59 PM | Reply

Definitely would have, but in the 50s-70s. It's Personal Rapid Transit in prototype form. It was prominent in Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Scientific American, and Housing and Urban Development studies on the concept, and concepts and prototypes introduced by Boeing, Rohr, Disney. Walt Disney genuinely believed he was prototyping the transportation systems that would replace cars.

A good name for the sociological theme is Individualization of Infrastructure. People want the benefits of public transport, but implemented in a private cabin experience.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-04 02:12 PM | Reply

And screw Mars, by the way, it is fool's grift.

Most of what Musk does is. He takes grand ideas from others, acts like they're his and spends spends spends to supposedly do it.

Meanwhile, what did all that public tax dollars sunk into SpaceX really buy? A private satellite internet service that profits Musk and StarLink shareholders while all the public got, other than service to the ISS, are rockets that land in chopsticks and flying d*&^s exploding in the Indian Ocean. Hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars and the end result is privately owned satellite internet and no meaningful movement of the needle on actual spaceflight capabilities.

(yes, I understand the reusable aspect of the landing technique; still doesn't move the needle)

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-04 02:56 PM | Reply