Doug Kreulen, president and CEO of Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Gov. Bill Lee and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announce a plan for Elon Musk's Boring Company to build an underground tunnel from the airport to Downtown Nashville. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was all smiles on July 28 as he announced the Boring Company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has plans to build a 10-mile tunnel connecting Nashville International Airport with downtown Nashville.

The “Music City Loop,” as the project has been dubbed, will transport riders in electric vehicles, and if the project is anything like a similar Boring “Loop” in Las Vegas, the cars will all be Teslas, as Musk also owns Tesla.

The company website says it creates tunnels to “solv

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