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Underground travel won't ever be feasible in Las Vegas. Believe it or not, the area's prone to flash flooding. There is already an extensive series of tunnels
by spondylosaurus 3y ago
Underground travel won't ever be feasible in Las Vegas. Believe it or not, the area's prone to flash flooding.
There is already an extensive series of tunnels under Vegas for storm runoff, and people even live in them—but when it rains it gets ugly. https://www.undercity.org/las-vegas-tunnels https://www.undercity.org/las-vegas-tunnels
- defrost 3y agoI rate this as a daft waste of time PR project for a slew of reasons, many that appear elsewhere in this thread. That said, flash floods aren't one. Done properly you can even have a tunnel with a permanent flood above it and heavy rains at both ends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel etc.