Miami mayor says Elon Musk will tunnel under the city for just $30 million

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Elon Musk told Miami's producer Friday that The Drawn-out Convergence could dig a two-mile tunnel underneath the downtown for as little as $30 million -- a grain of the $1 billion price tag already quoted by bounded transit officials. Musk also told the Producer that The Drawn-out Convergence could mature the job in six months, versus the original four year estimate.

Mayor Francis Suarez aggregate these details anyway his "wonderful call" with Musk in a video posted to Twitter. "He's focused on aggravating to ferry a project that will hypothesize the maximum utility for our residents for the least raft of money," Suarez said. "The order of consequence in agreement of savings is significant."

Just had my chirp w/ @elonmusk apropos @boringcompany tunnels contentious to MIA

DETAILS BELOW.. pic.twitter.com/NsJFYcvGeQ

-- Producer Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) February 5, 2021

Musk first tweeted anyway wanting to tunnel underneath Miami on January 18th. "Cars & trucks swamped in vehicles make megatons of virulent gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels underneath Miami would stay vehicles & be an example to the world," he wrote. Musk said in the tweet that he had already spoken to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis anyway the idea. "If Governor & Producer want this done, we will do it."

Suarez said Friday that he will speak to DeSantis and the producer of Miami-Dade county. "I think we hypothesize a unique befalling to create a signature project not nonbelligerent for Miami, but for the world," he said.

Tunneling underneath Miami is not forthcoming due to the here that the downtown is mature on limestone, which is spongey. That hurdle is one reasonableness for the sky-high price tag quoted in 2018. It also helped commute up the price of a tunnel underneath the Port of Miami, which was neath than a mile but still expense effectually $700 million.

Miami is mature on limestone, which would be immalleable to tunnel through

The Miami Herald revealed Friday that the limestone lava and the impact of rising sea levels were enclosed the talking credibility for the call, whereas it's cryptic to what extent these items were discussed. Musk has previously talked anyway digging tunnels as downreaching underground as skyscrapers are tall.

Musk started The Drawn-out Convergence in 2016, and has started a handful of projects effectually the country in the years since. The purpose and scope of the tunnels has dirgeful a bit over that time. These days, the convergence is aggravating to make a busline song-and-dance that uses Teslas traveling through the tunnels. The first commercial song-and-dance is oncoming hope underneath the Las Vegas Gang Center, whereas The Drawn-out Convergence reiteratively shepherd a massive city-wide expansion that would song-and-dance the Wreath and the airport. The convergence is also in negotiations for a tunnel in San Bernardino County, California.

Other attempts hypothesize not gone so well, like a unavailing project in Chicago and a canceled tunnel in West Los Angeles.

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