MIAMI – City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez held a news conference Monday to discuss his tour last week of Las Vegas tunnels created by billionaire Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.
Suarez has been speaking with the infrastructure and tunnel construction services company about the possibility of bringing their technology to Miami in an effort to ease traffic woes.
He expressed further optimism Monday about the potential of bringing the underground project to Miami.
Watch his entire news conference in the video at the top of this page.
Today I had the opportunity to visit @boringcompany tunnels in Las Vegas. After seeing the innovative & outstanding work @elonmusk & his team have done, I can’t wait to see what we can do for Miami.
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) March 19, 2021
This will revolutionize the modern-day, transit-oriented lifestyle of our City. pic.twitter.com/yA45hQbXa9
Fort Lauderdale is also exploring the idea.
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