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10 months ago
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@billspaced
@billspaced.com
10 minutes ago
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has work crew in Nashville walk off job over unpaid bills and safety The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, is reportedly facing significant issues with its new project in Nashville, Tennessee. A key subcontractor has walked off the job, alleging that the co
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has work crew in Nashville walk off job over unpaid bills and safety

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has work crew in Nashville walk off job over unpaid bills and safety

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, is reportedly facing significant issues with its new project in Nashville, Tennessee. A key subcontractor has walked off the job, alleging that the company has failed to pay for work completed on the “Music City Loop,” claiming they have received only 5% of what they are owed. We have been following The Boring Company’s expansion efforts closely. After the relative success of the Las Vegas Loop and several projects that failed to materialize, it looked like the company was winding down until a new proposal in Nashville gained some momentum. However, a new report from the Nashville Banner indicates that the project is hitting a major wall. Shane Trucking and Excavating, a local contractor hired to handle preliminary work for the tunnel project, pulled its workers off the site this Monday. William Shane, the owner of the company, told the Banner that The Boring Company has “ghosted” them and failed to pay invoices totaling in the six figures. According to Shane, the payment terms were initially set for every 15 days, then unilaterally switched to 60 days. Now, he claims it has been over 120 days since they broke ground, and his company has received only a fraction of the payment due. “We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” Shane said. The contractor was reportedly responsible for preparing the launch pad for “Prufrock,” The Boring Company’s proprietary tunnel boring machine (TBM). We previously reported on Prufrock’s capabilities, with the company claiming it can dig tunnels significantly faster than conventional machines, supposedly porpoising directly from the surface to avoid digging expensive launch pits. If the launch pad isn’t finished because the excavator wasn’t paid, Prufrock isn’t digging anywhere. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of payment issues involving Musk-led companies. Tesla has been known to not pay its bills, leading to small companies going bankrupt. As The Boring Company was stiffing Shane on the bills, the company tried to poach workers from its own contractor and lied about it: “One of their head guys texts two of my welders, offering them a job for $45 an hour from his work phone,” Shane described, noting that the same TBC employee denied sending the texts when confronted with screenshots. “That’s actually a breach of contract.” On top of the missed payments, Shane alleges serious safety concerns. They made several official complaints to OSHA: “Where we’re digging, we’re so far down, there should be concrete and different structures like that to hold the slope back from falling on you while you’re working. Where most people use concrete, they currently have — I’m not even kidding — they currently have wood. They had us install wood 2x12s.” The Boring Company Vice President David Buss blamed missed payments on “invoicing errors” in a statement to the Banner: “It does look like we had some invoicing errors on that. It was, you know, unfortunately, too common of a thing, but I assured them that we are going to make sure that invoices are wired tomorrow.” He also said that he would look into the poaching allegations, but added that he is not aware of any OSHA complaints. The “Music City Loop” was pitched as a solution to connect downtown Nashville to the airport, a route that is notoriously congested. The Boring Company claims it can complete the project without public money, but there are some obvious issues with its financing. I’ve been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on the “Loop” concept. While it falls short of the original “autonomous pods” vision or the “Hyperloop” speed dreams, the system in Las Vegas does work to move people, even if it is just Teslas in tunnels driven by humans. There’s just no evidence that it would be more efficient than any other public transit system. When Musk launched The Boring Company’s first test tunnel in LA, I asked him if he had any simulations showing his “loop” system to be more efficient. He said that they were working on that. That was 7 years ago. Therefore, while The Boring Company appears to have achieved marginal improvements in tunnel boring, mainly when it comes to smaller tunnels; it has yet to show clear evidence that its Loop system is a better solution than any other public transit system. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

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@bardenp.bsky.social
15 minutes ago
i've seen like half a dozen posts on x on how great boring is over trad tunnel subways they move like 3 people per car, while a normal subway has 40 ish per car, and goes both directions ... its a private car lane not a mass transit system...
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Marianne Goodland
@mgoodland.bsky.social
24 minutes ago
Incredibly sad news: State Sen. Faith Winter, 45, died in a multi-car accident on I-25 near Dry Creek this evening. All of us at Colorado Politics mourn with her family, friends and those she served in Senate District 25. www.coloradopolitics.com/….
Colorado Sen. Faith Winter, 45, killed in car accident

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Colorado Sen. Faith Winter, 45, killed in car accident

State Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster, was killed in a car accident Wednesday evening on I-25. The accident took place near the intersection of I-25 and Dry Creek Ave., according to the Arapahoe Coun...

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Active Towns
@activetowns.bsky.social
25 minutes ago
PREMIERE ALERT: Please tune in this Friday, yes, Black Friday, November 28th, at 2 pm EST for a conversation with Michel Durand-Wood, the Elmwood Guy behind the popular Dear Winnipeg blog about municipal finance and other cool Strong Towns-esque stuff. youtu.be/x9UCIPRySfI
EPISODE 318 MICHEL DURAND WOOD: Dear Winnipeg Goes Global

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EPISODE 318 MICHEL DURAND WOOD: Dear Winnipeg Goes Global

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Mike Chen 陳懋華
@mikechensf.com
38 minutes ago
This San Francisco legislation seems good to give nonprofit housing builders more flexibility and faster approvals on ground-floor and interim uses. The city would save money, housing would be built sooner, and projects would spend less time as underused space. #yimby www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
Headline: S.F. pushes planning code changes to speed up affordable housing development
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Lonx
@lonx.systems
43 minutes ago
It’s a missed opportunity on the part of Valve to not have Black Mesa Research Facility have a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system like what Morgantown, West Virginia has, instead settling for a normal tramway
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Alice "Speed Dawg"
@yolowoho.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Ottawa Charge season ticket holder hats this year are bike path themed to honor our city's love of cycling and how public transit is a major way fan travel to games 😌😌😌
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James P Bennett
@akjpb.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Bike Anchorage’s response to Sunday’s ADN’s editorial about the increase of pedestrian deaths in Anchorage. The ADN editorial did quite a bit of victim blaming and offered fixes that made it more difficult to be a walker or a cyclist here. www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: Stop blaming pedestrians and start fixing streets

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Opinion: Stop blaming pedestrians and start fixing streets

Anchorage’s pedestrian death toll isn’t about reflective vests or fences — it’s about dangerous driving, weak enforcement and leaders who prioritize convenience over human life.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇
@fischer.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
this video has a bunch of great google street view timelapses showing parking unassuming side streets transforming from parking lots into mid and high rise density. but essentially none of them show major street reconfigurations — makes you think!
Top 10 US Cities That Are Becoming More City-Like

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Top 10 US Cities That Are Becoming More City-Like

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Vision Zero Vancouver
@visionzerovancouver.ca
about 1 hour ago
Bus lanes are being expanded and extended on Main and Kingsway. Great to see some progress on this file!
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Jake Berman
@lostsubways.com
about 1 hour ago
Is there a good summary somewhere of HB8002, the housing and parking reform bill Ned Lamont just signed in CT?
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Laurens van Dijk
@laurensvandijk.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Can cities boost housing and biodiversity? England’s proposed “forest city” aims to do both—walkable, green, and transit-focused. Could this be a model for the future? 🌱 www.theguardian.com/envir….
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

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How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈
@kourge.net
about 1 hour ago
zootopia 2 really hit us with the redlining crimes
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