- Real-life scenario, especially affecting Davidson County, at a state level, you have something like a tunnel being built that's going to be from, you know, roughly downtown into our airport, right?

That didn't need to really involve anybody in Davidson County, because it was being constructed on state land, right?

When things like that come across you all, it's deaths or the delegation, when it kind of takes out community from it, right?

How does that play into y'all's role as senator or state representative and communicating that to, you know, residents, especially the residents that may be affected by some type of infrastructure like that?

- Alright.

And that's a huge, huge project.

And when that announcement came, we kind of heard rumors of some of these things being discussed, but when the announcement came, it actually came at the airport, and I represent the airport.

And I wasn't even at the airport when that announcement came, and I had a high anxiety of how it was done and what happened.

I didn't have any assurance of what was going to happen for environment, for the studies, for what permits would or wouldn't be required, the safety concerns.

And I had a lot, a lot of concerns with that.

I met with the governor's staff.

I literally met with the commissioner of TDOT, I met with ECD, I met with TDEC, the environment.

And I wanted to go through every single channel that I could to investigate what this was.

After I had that as a background, I called them, and I called the boring company, and they sent their executive down, and I had multiple meetings with them, and I told them to start with, I said I was not thrilled with how this came out and so forth.

However, after multiple meetings, after watching through, and I've actually had somebody go out to Vegas, and ride this, and check it out, I've become very comfortable with what this could be.