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 will link nan city’s downtown pinch nan Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will statesman building “immediately” pursuing support and expects nan first 10-mile shape to beryllium operational arsenic early arsenic adjacent year, arsenic reported earlier by TechCrunch.

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

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

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