How are these people so dumb? Miami famously has problems with tunnels because of water issues. Musk can’t cheaply bore a tunnel where it’s dry - he’d have no idea how to do in Miami, and it would be incredibly expensive, even more so than if they hired someone who knew what they were doing. These Florida commissioners are buying into the cult of personality, and I hope their cities don’t pay the price.
Well, it’s possible, it’s just really expensive and requires a lot of upkeep to bore tunnels there. The local Republicans seem to actually believe it, as this isn’t the first local Florida official who bought into the hype - there was some elected official who was super-eager to take Musk up on the idea of building a bunch of underground roads under the belief that it would be possible at the costs Musk had mentioned, and not the cost Florida had recently paid for the Port Miami tunnel, which was a billion+ dollars for 4000 feet. Which cost that for the reasons you mention. It’s just a willful denial of reality.
