Another Elon Musk company is doing things in another Tennessee city, as Hannah McDonald reports:
Aerial footage from Sky 5 shows a freshly dug pit near the base of the State Capitol, a visible sign of progress on The Boring Company’s controversial underground transportation project in Tennessee.
The 10-foot-deep, 20-by-20-foot test pit was dug this week to study the rock beneath downtown. It’s part of the company’s plan to eventually shuttle passengers between the airport and downtown in Teslas through twin tunnels, aiming for a nine-minute trip by 2027.
“By the way, tough place to tunnel in Nashville,” said Steve Davis, CEO and President of The Boring Company. “You have extremely hard rock, like way harder than it should be.”
The initial digging began before the company asked the city for official approval.