Elon Musk’s boring company to build the Tesla Tunnel under Nashville
Boring company, Elon Musk’s tunnel drilling company, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has it announcement Plans are to build a 10-mile “loop” connecting downtown Nashville and its convention center to the area’s airport.
According to a press release from the governor, the project will be personally funded by the boring company “and its private partners,” but these partners are not named. The boring company and local officials will begin a “public process to assess potential routes, attract community stakeholders, and finalize plans for the first 10-mile phase of the project.”
Construction will not begin until the project has cleared the approval process. However, the Governor’s Office said the first segment of the loop could become operational “early in the fall of 2026.”
If that happens, Nashville will be the second city where a boring company has opened such a system, first in Las Vegas. The company has dug up and opened a Las Vegas Convention Center in Sin City for the past few years, claiming it has given 3 million vehicles to date at Teslas.
Mask has launched a boring company Early 2017 (After publicly putting noodles on Twitter about the idea while getting caught up in traffic in the second half of 2016). It has taken many forms since then.
The original video detailing Musk’s ideas – now set to private on YouTube – shows vehicles removed from Surface Street Gridlock in elevator and type systems and removed into a network of tunnels in a 3D underground network. Musk also claimed that during the first Trump administration, the boring company had received “verbal government approval” from New York City to dig tunnels into Washington, D.C.
It never happened. The boring company has abandoned plans to dig the main tunnel system beneath it Greater Los Angeles Region After a pushback from the locals. a The same thing happened in Chicago. And there’s a boring company Essentially ghosted many other cities across the country.
The idea of the hyperloop that Musk admitted to biographer Ashley Vance came from him. Hatred of California’s high-speed rail systemHe was also thrown aside. Even Tesla, which crosses a Las Vegas tunnel, is driven by humans despite masks being obsessed with self-driving cars.
Instead, the boring company is now more like the glorious convention center Peoplemover, but that approach has potential benefits to a typical monorail setup. Construction should not be disruptive to Nashville’s daily traffic. And, at least in its current form, taxpayers’ money is not costly.
The Tennessee Governor’s Office cites the safety records of a boring company in Las Vegas in its announcement. This is what the Loop said was “recently cited by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transcribed Security Administration with a “recent safety and security rating of 99.57%,” not to mention the issues Musk’s tunnel excavation efforts experienced during construction. (We were unable to contact the governor’s office for comments.)
Like Other Musk companiesthe pace run by a boring company — the same speed the Tennessee governor’s office praised in its announcement — was a concern for some of its workers.
Last year, Jessica Matthews from Fortune It has been reported A boring company employee told his then-safe manager: “I’ve seen my friends get hurt because of the fast pace we run. I refuse to be the first deadly thing in the company’s history. The tunnels are not worthy of a single person’s life.”
The same safety manager spoke to Fortune on the record, saying, “The conditions they were told to work were honestly barely able to withstand… they couldn’t fix the wrong thing.”