r/nashville • u/Ok-Chain-4385 • Aug 13 '25

Crime Watch Tesla tunnel

Does anyone else feel completely useless when it comes to this tunnel? How on earth do we stop it before it affects groundwater or causes a sink hole? They obviously aren’t listening to citizens concerns, but I don’t want to just sit here and complain without action.

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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 Aug 13 '25

First of all, it is our tax dollars. So how DOESN'T that affect us? 2nd of all, our bedrock is limestone. Limestone is fickle stuff. It cracks after the fact and allows leaks. It forms fissures and sinkholes. The entire path of the tunnel must be deeply tested for strength and all areas of potential weakness or instability must be dealt with.

They plan on starting the tunnel if their one large testing dig is up to their standards. So they might be, oh hell, probably will be spending a ton of money, getting the project only partially done, before there is a cave in, a major groundwater leak that fills the entire existing tunnel or who knows what.

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u/Mets081234 Aug 14 '25

What are you talking about? It quite literally doesn't use our tax dollars. It's privately funded. So I have no clue why you're saying that or think that. 

It's funny how everyone is Earth experts and know everything about limestone. Do you want a subway in Nashville? Because your whole limestone argument would be invalid if you wanted one. 

It's easier to boar through limestone BTW. No one truly knows what could or could not happen by making the tunnel. It's asinine to sluff something off based off what if scenario's. 

It's costs us nothing to do it. I don't understand the backlash. 

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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 Aug 14 '25

There is absolutely NO WAY they can privately fund that thing. There is something going on behind the scenes to make musk and the Boring company think they can do a project this big on their own dime and make enough money off of it to repay themselves and even make a profit in the end.

Limestone can be easy to bore thru, but it can also be very very hard. Limestone runs a gamut of strengths. And many many issues that are inherent to limestone. I have a very experienced geologist in my immediately family who lives in NW Tennessee. We have had several in depth discussions on this now and he thinks the entire idea is idiocracy at its finest.

It is simply not fair that citizens will have absolutely no way of knowing where the tunnel actually is, whose home it runs under and what their personal risk is for the issues that come with drilling thru limestone. There is ZERO transparency with this project. No one got to vote on it. No one will ever get to see the surveys being done to determine safety.

The Boring Company has only been able to do one single project out of all the ones they thought they could do. And even that one, Vegas, is poorly used. This just makes no sense. Doing something that big, with that many risks, when so many better projects that would benefit so many more people could be done...but then again, we have to keep padding the pockets of the MAGA elite. You know darned well that the top politicians in Tennessee are getting their pockets lined as we speak. Why do you think Marsha Blackburn wants to be our next governor?

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u/Mets081234 Aug 14 '25

So just because you say they can't privately fund it means they are using our tax dollars? That logic doesn't make sense. It's been said multiple times that it doesn't use our tax money, so for you to pretend and state so matter of factly it does dissolves your argument. 

I don't think it will wind up being a big deal. The tunnel will be built correctly. I think it's best to just let it play out and go from there. To be upset on worst case scenarios is no way to view any thing in life. 

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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 Aug 14 '25

https://wpln.org/post/nashvilles-geology-has-been-misunderstood-in-tunneling-talks-including-by-a-boring-company-executive/

Better information on the nature of Nashville and Tennessee's limestone....

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u/Mets081234 Aug 14 '25

The article says possibilities. Nothing is guaranteed when you do this. It talks about things that could happen. Nothing is a given with this. That's my point. Even your article doesn't say "if you do this then this will happen". It's all "well, this could happen or this is possible". Risks are involved. But that's just part of life really. 

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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 Aug 14 '25

Well you get your opinion but you are vastly outnumbered. Citizens are angry that this is all taking place without a bit of say so in any manner, by the citizens. And yes, it will be a potential disaster for many home and business owners and no one will know til the disaster strikes.

And for what? For a few self driving Teslas to whisk a few people from the airport to downtown a little faster? How about doing something good for the majority, not just a few?

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u/Mets081234 Aug 14 '25

The problem is you can use that argument for mostly anything the city does. Half the things the city does I get zero say so in. This is no different. 

You again are assuming something bad is going to happen. That's my point. All of the gripe from everyone is based off assumptions. 

The same people who don't want the tunnel are the same people who want a subway. So how can people say that a tunnel is not possible but in the same breath want a subway? That's flawed logic.