Last week, The Boring Company (TBC) laid out a detailed roadmap for the Holy Grail of transportation in Sin City: a direct, underground connection between the Las Vegas Strip and Harry Reid International Airport.
According to TBC President Steve Davis, the company has already begun limited airport pickups, which begins a four-phase rollout that will ease surface-level traffic.
Four-Phase Roadmap
The airport connection isn’t happening all at once; it is being activated in stages to get passengers moving from point to point immediately.
Phase 1
Phase 1, which is active now, involves limited test rides (about 50 per day), using existing TBC Loop stations at Resorts World, Encore, Westgate, and the Las Vegas Convention Center. Just this week, 100 of the fleet’s 130 Teslas were outfitted with the required airport transponders, allowing them to pick up passengers and operate on a hybrid route that combines tunnel travel with surface streets.
Phase 2
Phase 2, which is scheduled to begin in the coming months, is a new 2.2-mile dual-direction tunnel currently under construction. This new section of the tunnel will run from Westgate toward Paradise Road. Once active, vehicles will exit the tunnel system much closer to the airport, removing two miles of surface traffic from the journey.
Phase 3
The next big expansion begins in Phase 3, where the tunnel network will extend even closer to Terminal 1 at Harry Reid. This also bypasses one of the heaviest traffic intersections in Las Vegas - Tropicana and University Center. To support this volume, Phase 3 will also double the Loop fleet to nearly 300 vehicles.
Phase 4
Phase 4 is the final step, with a dedicated underground station built directly at the airport terminals, allowing passengers to step off a plane and into a Tesla without ever seeing the desert sun.
FSD Goes Underground
While the expansion continues, the vehicles inside the tunnel are also getting an upgrade.
TBC vehicles have been spotted this week sporting new Tesla Self-Driving decals, and are using FSD (Supervised) for the first time to begin traversing the loop. The vehicles are still monitored by TBC employees, so they aren’t autonomous quite yet.
Just got to ride in the first car in the Boring Loop with Full Self-Driving!
— Ryan Zohoury (@RyanZohoury) January 9, 2026
The car flawlessly took us from Central Station to the Encore with zero input from the safety driver except the start button. @elonmusk @boringcompany pic.twitter.com/5SMoermDM5
This transforms the Vegas Loop into a validation track for FSD, focused on testing its close-in capabilities to drive in the tight Boring Loop. The controlled environment will eventually support speeds up to 150 mph in certain straightaway sections.
2027 Target
To finish the full 68-mile Vegas Loop by the targeted 2027 date, TBC needs to speed up - not just the cars, but the paperwork.
TBC needs over 600 additional permits across Clark County to complete the system. At the current pace of one approval every 1-2 weeks, the project would take decades. TBC is working with local officials to try to streamline an operator-style permitting process, similar to how SpaceX operates Starbase, to facilitate approvals.
