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July 29, 2025

What Nashville Needs To Know About Elon Musk's Tunnels

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What Nashville Needs To Know About Elon Musk's Tunnels

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Yesterday, state officials and Elon Musk’s The Boring Company officially announced plans for a tunnel connecting downtown and BNA. We’ve got the details on the plan, plus City Cast Las Vegas host Dayvid Figler joins host Marie Cecile Anderson and executive producer Whitney Pastorek to explain how similar tunnels are already impacting life in Sin City.

Read the City Cast Las Vegas collaboration with Daniel Rothberg of ProPublica about lapses in the oversight of their tunnel construction here.

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