Boring Company's Newest Vegas Station Has Permit for Northern Expansion
Sahara Las Vegas becomes the Strip's northernmost Loop stop as crews work toward a November Grand Prix target.
Sahara Las Vegas opened a new Vegas Loop station Thursday, giving The Boring Company's underground transit system its northernmost stop yet on the Strip.
What Happened
The station sits at Sahara's Paradise Road entrance on the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue. It connects riders to the Las Vegas Convention Center, other Strip resorts on the network, and eventually Harry Reid International Airport. The addition makes Sahara the second resort, after Fontainebleau opened its own station in January, to get a stop built at street level rather than tucked into the property itself. Boring Company has already secured its first permit to tunnel north of Sahara Avenue, extending the network beyond where it currently ends, even though permits to push the Loop toward downtown Las Vegas still haven't been granted. Crews are also working on a two-mile dual tunnel line running from Westgate to a planned station at 4744 Paradise Road, just north of Tropicana Avenue, that LVCVA CEO Steve Hill has said the company hopes to open in time for November's Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Why It Matters
Sahara now joins Westgate as the only two Strip resorts offering both a Vegas Loop station and a stop on the Las Vegas Monorail, giving guests two separate ways to get around without leaving the property. Convention traffic drives a large share of Loop ridership, and a station at the property's front door gives conventiongoers one more reason to book rooms on the Strip's north end instead of closer to the convention center itself. The system has now carried more than 4 million passengers through 11 open stations since it began running in 2021.
The Bottom Line
The Loop moved roughly 82,000 passengers during CONEXPO in early March. Airport connector tunnels meant to give the Loop a direct link to Harry Reid have slipped past their original first quarter target and remain under construction, with Boring Company director Mike Baier saying a full opening is still a few months out.
