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Elon Musk is digging a car tunnel under Nashville, Tennessee to reduce traffic jams. Local officials are worried. (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 9 months ago

"Just one more lane, bro! We'll fix traffic! Just one more lane..."

Burying the lanes doesn't make them less subject to the geometry of cars.

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    [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    Because it worked so well the first time around....

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    [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Remind me again about the time that adding any capacity to any road resolved traffic congestion.

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    • [–] 24 points 9 months ago

    This article fails to mention that the trucking and excavation company hired to do the work abandoned the project after not getting paid.

    https://fox17.com/news/local/subcontractor-walks-off-music-city-loop-job-over-payment-communication-issues-the-boring-company-nashville-tennessee

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Ontario's MAGA Premiere is spending millions in a feasibility study to build multi-lane tunnels under a highway 14 lanes wide at points.

    He never graduate high school.

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    How's the Vegas Loop handling traffic again?

    Oh, right... it's a taxi service through a tube underground between the airport and the convention center... not very usable by all.

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    One more lane. Just one more lane and your troubles go away.

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    [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Let him build it.

    Let the chauffered car thing fail.

    Eminent domain the tunnel.

    Stick a fucking train in it.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    The boring company tunnels are a problem.

    They don't have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They're being disruptive by ignoring everything we've learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you're limited to the route they dug, which probably isn't as useful for transporting people instead of cars.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The routes themselves are bad. The tunnels run below already existing state highways. It saves them admin time only having to get approval from the agency that manages the highways, but makes it a poor choice for a transit line.

    A conversion could be useful for getting people to the city center from the airport. But any station along the route would be difficult to access, unpleasant to be in, and be of little use to anyone being buried under a highway.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I'm half with you; eminent domain it, but I wouldn't trust his tunnels with humans in them. Maybe it could be repurposed as a way to redirect flood waters or something. His tunneling ability is right up there with his morality acumen.

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    The “Music City Loop” will feature a fleet of chauffeured Teslas

    Are you fucking kidding me? Aren't they building robotaxis now? Why wouldn't they use them?

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