Nashville's Mayor reveals he knew about The Boring Company's interest in the tunnel connecting BNA to downtown for about a year without offering support.

The Boring Company, yet another of Elon Musk’s companies, has been hired to dig car tunnels underneath Nashville. The State of Tennessee is looking for innovative ways to facilitate transportation and decided to give the revolutionary concept a whirl.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee says the Nashville tunnels will come at “zero cost” to taxpayers, and will instead be “entirely privately funded” by The Boring Company and its partners. Once completed, the “Tesla in tunnels” system will ferry people from the airport to downtown in around eight minutes.