Elon Musk’s Boring Company announces plan to tunnel under Nashville

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced plans to excavation tunnels nether Nashville, creating a loop that volition link the city’s downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it volition statesman operation “immediately” pursuing support and expects the archetypal 10-mile signifier to beryllium operational arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent year, arsenic reported earlier by TechCrunch.

In 2021, The Boring Company opened its archetypal “loop” successful Las Vegas, wherever it uses a fleet of human-operated Tesla vehicles to transport radical crossed the city’s normal center. It has since expanded the passageway to link the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) way with adjacent resorts.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee says the Nashville tunnels volition travel astatine “zero cost” to taxpayers, and volition alternatively beryllium “entirely privately funded” by The Boring Company and its partners. Once completed, the “Tesla successful tunnels” strategy volition ferry radical from the airdrome to downtown successful astir 8 minutes.

Questions stay astir whether this latest loop volition really travel to fruition. As pointed retired by TechCrunch, The Boring Company has floated and quietly dropped galore of its tunnel-digging plans successful the past, including successful Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, and others. At the aforesaid time, workers astatine The Boring Company look galore information concerns, with 1 worker saying they person “consistently flirted with death,” according to a 2024 study by Fortune.