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The Strip, McCarran airport, and downtown are not within one or two miles of each other. They are further apart than that so there must be something else to it.

The Strip itself could use the whole length of the tunnel, so whatever this is connecting to is going to be more limited then it might sound from the article.

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It's just from one end of the LVCC to the other.

That sounds silly until you've walked from one end of the LVCC to the other.

The expansion of the LVCC made me vaguely curious about what types of shows use it given that all the IT shows I'm familiar with use the Venetian/Sands or, if they're a bit smaller, The Mandalay Bay. I haven't been there since Comdex days. It looks as if it's things like Kitchen and Bath Builders, World of Concrete, etc. So maybe things that are more oriented towards a mega show floor and less to speaking rooms.

CES is the key one. It occupies all of LVCC and Sands, with spillover and unofficial meeting rooms taking up basically all of the strip. It's not clear what CES is going to do with another full hall though. The show is already kind of a mish-mash of industries.

I forgot about CES because I've never been to that one.

It still sort of amazes me that CES hasn't collapsed under its own weight. Comdex did. CeBIT finally did. I thought it was finally going to happen about a decade ago when Microsoft pulled out; that's the usual "emperor has no clothes" moment. But it kept on going.

what types of shows use it given that all the IT shows I'm familiar with use the Venetian/Sands

Here's the list of big conventions this year:

  CES: 175,000 people
  Automotive Aftermarket Show: 160,000
  ConExpo-Con/Agg: 129,000
  National Association of Broadcasters: 103,000
  MAGIC (fashion/makeup, I believe): 78,0000
  International Builders Show: 68,000
  Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show: 61,000
  World of Concrete: 60,000
  National Mining Association: 50,000
  Las Vegas Market, Winter: 50,000
  Las Vegas Market, Summer: 50,000
  ASD Market Week Winter: 46,000
  Mr. Olympia: 45,000
  ASD Market Week Summer: 44,000
  Nightclub and Bar Show: 39,000
  Audiovisual and Integrated Experience: 38,000
  RECon: 37,000

Those are just the top attendees. There are many dozens more.

Of those I listed, only the Automotive Aftermarket show is also at the Sands.

The expansion isn't to handle larger shows, it's to handle more large shows simultaneously.

Also not listed is the NFR Rodeo which is big enough to be held at the UNLV stadium, plus the expo center, plus over a dozen hotels. I think that one is around 103,000 people.

Did NAB once. Miserable. Barely any place to sit on the floor, let alone benches. And the roaches--ugh.

"is expected to connect the Las Vegas Convention Center to popular Las Vegas hot spots. Downtown Las Vegas, the Strip, and McCarran International Airport will all be destination options for riders"

That statement in the article makes no sense in the context of other stated facts in the article. And seems to be simply untrue. [1] It's a contract with the Las Vegas Convention Center.

"LVCC Loop will connect the LVCC New Exhibit Hall with the existing campus (North/Central/South Halls). Three stations locations (see map below) will offer convenient access between key LVCC destinations and nearby transportation connections."

Getting around Vegas in general is a pain. What transportation systems there are aren't integrated. And individual casinos/conference centers are so sprawling that, as this project shows, you practically (or do) need transit systems just to get around a single property.

ADDED: The Boring Company page shows "conceptual future expansion" to a ton of other locations. Those other locations include Los Angeles so I'll leave it to readers to judge how realistic those are.

[1] https://www.boringcompany.com/lvcc

I think they are stretching because you'll be able to transfer to the monorail.

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