Elon Musk's Boring Co. tunnels aren't wanted by most Nashville residents

After watching a few youtube videos about the Vegas Loop and how it works, it strikes me that this is simply an inefficient people mover, and it's privately owned and expensive to use at $12 per ride. It reinforces the stereotype that Americans are so car-brained that even their mass transit is car-centric. Wouldn't the public be better served by a proper mass-transit line, aka a subway, connecting the airport to downtown?

BUILD F****** TRAINS. We know they are effective. Stop giving money to that human shit stain.

These tunnels are an abysmal failure in las vegas. The have low throughput, and are expensive compared to other mass transit options. These proposals aren’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Hopefully in a few years the tunnels will be able to be converted to a real mass transit solution if they get built. 

These are deeply unpopular people… yet somehow when elections occurred (with Musks technology) they mysteriously became popular people. Seems like something people should look into

The only people who want this f****** nonce is selling need lobotomies

>*Earlier this month, Metro Nashville Council members voted to formally oppose the Music City Loop. However, the state’s Republican leadership has given Musk’s company permission to dig under state highways throughout the city.* It's Wexner's Columbus, Ohio all over again--this time by Musk. The new colonization by the billionaire class.

Why can't these billionaires go back to funding projects that actually help the populace like libraries, train stations, colleges, etc.

Here's what is happening here: Tennessee, and the state leaders that advanced this project, are heavily Republican Nashville, being a big wealthy city, is Democrat

What if a subway system but proprietary and awful?

> This project did not emerge from public demand. It did not arise from community planning. It entered the city through elite access That quote from a Nashville resident at the council meeting is the whole story in three sentences.

you got me fucked up if you think I'm ever putting my mortal body inside a tunnel built by Elon Musk

I read that this dummy wants to try this idiotic noodle maneuver in New Orleans, a place with such a famously high water table that we cannot even bury our dead in the Earth. Hey dipshit, when you were cruising around scoping it out, did you entirely miss that every cemetery is wall-to-wall mausoleums and oven tombs? Seriously, if brains were gasoline, Elon Musk wouldn't have enough to power an ant's motorcycle around the outside of a dime.

Anything he peddles takes away from the common sense, cost-effective, environmentally sustainable solution of expanding public transit services of buses and trains. Bonus points for developing safe and viable cycling infrastructure

The worrysome question is, why is he so dead-set on building these tunnels? It's currently a company operating at a loss, investors are not interested, people are not interested, not even the saudis. He's basically forcing this out of his own pocket, and it is very atypical for him to do projects without grifting taxpayer money, targeting government contracts or creating a "too big to fail" situation for the government. There must be a strange reason for all of this that is not being disclosed.

Only in America can a subway be turned into a taxi convoy 

What if they made tunnels but the cars in them were big and multiple people could get in and electricity could be used to power the large cars instead of a battery. Oh and it stops at predetermined spots so people could wait to get one instead of ordering it. Never-ending it sounds too futuristic

Don't worry people of Nashville, Elon won't actually build any tunnels.

For those who don't know, the boring company is a scam used to prevent public transportation adoption. That's it. That's all it does.

Let's make the same basic infrastructure as a train, but less efficient, less accessible and less financially sensible.

These are stupid waste of tax payers money beyond belief

Is this the same guy that did a Nazi salute when Adipose Rex was elected?

Nashville isn't even that hard of a city to drive around in.

Surprised that there hasnt been a battery fire catastrophe in the existing one. It just seem like a very bad idea...

I remember when this shit was supposed to be ultra fast transportation and then Elon went, “lol, jk it’s now It’s A Small World for Teslas.”

He got a half million dollars of fines for breaking regulations on his project in Nevada. Then the governor forgave the fine and Musk made a huge donation and effort to get the governor reelected. F#ckMusk

These stupid tunnels are some sort of elaborate plan to never use rail in the states. America can’t just admit that traveling by rail makes sense.

Musk killed 600K children with DOGE. That should be the only story anyone ever runs about him.

American leaders are so carbrained, beholden to billionaires, outright stupid, or all of the above that they will build something that has the inflexibility of a train, infrastructure costs of a subway, and inefficiency at scale of a car just to avoid building actual mass transit. Congratulations Elon on managing to synthesize the worst elements of every form of motorized transport into one medium and somehow managing to propagate this abortion of an idea across the country It would be impressive if it wasn’t for the fact that I was born and live here

They aren't wanted by New Orleans residents either. Tunnels don't work here. Most of the city is already below sea level and the water table is like 5 feet down. - Signed, a New Orleanian

Now hear me out….. There’s a thing called trains

Dude with the Adolf cut don’t care.

He just wants to make sure that in 5-10 years Nashville has sufficient sinkholes.

Since when has he cared what other people wanted?

I just feel like all these dumb tunnels are gonna lead to a massive disaster. 

**TL;DR** The point of the Boring Company is to create stupid and expensive public transit solutions no one will like so that 1) Musk can walk away with more tax dollars after doing no work and 2) local politicians can pretend to listen to the needs of the people of their city while keeping the car lobbies off their backs. That's because *that's the whole point of the Boring Company*. Let's say you're a politician in a city where you need the support of the huddled masses to stay elected. Those huddled masses are likely to demand better public transit, but that's expensive. **Plus,** you've been all but told that any attempt to fund more real public transit would get powerful and wealthy PACs backed by the automobile industry to support your opponents and you'd lose your office. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place. So what do you do? You call up the Boring Company. You hold a big press conference and tell the public "We're working with the world's smartest man, Elon Musk, to try and make a revolutionary transit solution right here in our town!" (This worked a lot better pre-2020, but it still broadly works). Then the Boring Company holds big public competitions with local engineering schools to see who can design the best Hyperloop train car. You keep your efforts as a local city politician involved with the project in the local press as much as possible through this process. Millions and millions of dollars of city money goes into ~~the pockets of Elon Musk~~ the efforts of genius engineers working tirelessly to propose a solution to the city's transit woes. Then the plan comes out- its *absurdly* expensive, *deeply* impractical, and would take a decade plus of safety research to make sure it wouldn't kill anyone (anyone who tells you any iteration of Hyperloop is a good idea, you can safely consider them a deeply unserious person). Part of the terms of a city's contract with the Boring Company is that it *must* put the proposed public transit solution to a public city-wide vote, one that the Boring Company is *counting on* losing. In 99% of cases, the measure fails because its a stupid public transit solution that costs too much money. ~~Elon Musk~~ The Boring Company walks away with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of the city's money having given the city nothing but a bunch of PR events, a few concept sketches, and a half-baked proposal. The politician that brought them in has several years of press showing them doing everything they can to bring in better public transit and a failed vote on the proposal that they can hide behind when people demand *actual* improvements to the public transit system by saying, "I understand that that's what *you* want, but the city wide vote last year showed there just isn't that much interest in spending our tax dollars on it." Now, you can be a champion of the people in your reelection campaign by saying that you did your best to get public transit into the city, but still appeal to the fiscal conservative (read: rich NIMBY's) types by saying you saved the city loads of money by not listening to the minority and wasting money on an impractical project. A perfect deal to everyone involved *except* the people living in the city. Its honestly an incredibly effective way for Musk to hoard more public tax money into his personal assets. **Elon Musk is the greatest and most successful welfare queen in US history.** The Las Vegas incident has been the biggest thorn in the Boring Company's side, because *somehow* the measure to create a Hyperloop in Vegas actually passed. Funny enough, the half-baked nature of the proposal truly showed itself here, because the purposely absurd high price tag put on the project was *orders of magnitude* too low to actually pull off the original proposal. What resulted was the shitty Tesla tunnel- they could only afford to build a tunnel between 2 nearly useless stops and fill it with discounted auto-pilot cars from Musk's other company. That's how bad their proposals to these cities are. **And they're bad on purpose.** The whole point is to get people to vote against public transit measures so that local politicians can hide behind a voting statistic and stay in office while not listening to the demands of their people.

I can’t imagine any reasonable person wants anything from that blundering herpes sore of a human.

Are these f****** trains monogamous? Do they mate for life? Or do they get around and share? We have to know how many to build in order to have a diverse and self sustaining train population.

Sure, will residents have any say?

No one wants it. For one tunneling in limestone is a bad idea. And it just goes from the Capitol to the airport. It's not exactly useful or efficient.

EM is a complete idiot. Why is anyone surprised ?

Only a moron thinks those tunnels are a good idea, I rode the one in Vegas at resorts world and it was a joke.

Maybe traffic wouldn't be as bad if the United States actually invested in proper public transportation

Is 👏a subway 👏still 👏too 👏much 👏to 👏ask 👏for now? Seriously, Nashville rent and home prices aren’t far from Los Angeles but the city has shit for public transit.

Oh my god no way is he doing this shit again

The ONLY good part about this is that people aren't buying into Elon Musk's hype, it's a hideously expensive dipstick to determine what people think of Elon Musk.

What a coincidence elon musk isnt wanted by most people either...

This whole thing is a scam!

The one in Vegas is the dumbest thing ever. It’s basically a train made out of industrial cars that is really expensive and an absolute death trap if a fire breaks out

Why don’t they make trains instead of whatever that picture is showing?

They weren't wanted by most Las Vegas residents either... But backroom deals don't care much for residents

There really needs to be study on how tech bros keeping "inventing" a new mode of transportation that is just a shittier version of trains.

Elon Musk's ~~Boring Co. tunnels aren't~~ not wanted by ~~most Nashville~~ residents

There a few key issues with the hyperloop design that can be improved on. 1. Having to repave roads and change tires on cars regularlg is all lot of maintenance for something that does loops in a tunnel all day long. Noise may be an issue with more sturdy tires and roads but noise is not an issue underground. 2. The cars need to charge between trips, meaning you have a lot of downtime for cars and you either limit throughout or have dozens of carts out of commission at any given time. Plus you may need to hire people to manage and plug in vehicles at any stop, and possibly large amounts of extra storage space to handle having so many cars at once. 3. The cars only fit about 4 or 5 people max. If you need to move hundreds of people, it's difficult to scale up and since there's only a few stops anyways you end up with dozens of car going to the same place back to back. Could take hours to move 500 people. 4. Theres the possibility of traffic jams. 1 slow car could stop all the rest. Even automated vehicles have this issues. I think we can probably solve all of those and make the Tesla loop something pretty great though. 1. we can use metal wheels and metal roads. Way less maintenance needed. The road doesn't even have to be that big, toy cns probably just have 2 long runs of metal for the wheels or stand on and have the car ride along them.. 2. Such constant carging is tedious And batteries are heavy and expensive, we can just replace them and plug the cars right into a power line. That way they can constantly take all the power the need without needed people toxharge them between trips. the power line could be built into the road or hang above it. 3. We can improve throughout drastically with longer and wider vehicles. make a custom car shape that is more boxy and fill it with as much seating as is comforable. We'll have a small section at the front for the controls. Or even better. We can have a single car at the front that is powered that is really strong and can pull another car behind it that is just for people, that way we can take all the space that would be used for motors and batteries to maximize cabin space for riders. If we make the front car strong enough we could even have it tow multiple passenger cars at once! Should be able to move hundreds of people per trip if its big enough. 4. If take all or of the old cars off the road and go with the linked-car idea, we can work out a schedule such that we have one linked-car reach a destination a few minutes after the last one left. We can cycle maybe 5 or 6 of these between stops all day, and never have to worry about traffic. Again I really think Elon is on to something here, but there's a lot of little flaws that make this challenging. But with a few of my improvements it could really be something special. Revolutionary even!

Elon needs to have all of his assets nationalized for sedition and then be deported by ICE This shitbird pedo needs to go

Should have called it the "Fun Tunnel". Branding is important

That's okay. He'll never deliver on them, anyway. It's kind of his thing.

Pretty sure the people in the Epstein files like Elon don't care about consent.

Musk and his boring tunnels is about right.

Most things with any ties to Elon aren’t wanted in any community, be it cars, infrastructure projects, data centers - all of it.

It's fine, almost none of them get built anyway. All the other projects besides Vegas fell apart and it only went through in Vegas because their city council approves every stupid idea so long as you slip them some cash.

We never got a choice on the Titans stadium or on these tunnels, but about a decade ago when a real mass transit bill was presented it was a required vote that was doomed to fail and lobbied against by Americans for Prosperity, big oil, and car dealerships. Now we’ve been gerrymandered to hell so we have no federal representation either. We live in a sham democracy.

Or anyone but GOP politician.