A key subcontractor on Elon Musk’s future-ready underground transport system has walked off after claiming the tech tycoon refused to pay for work already done.

William Shane, owner of local company Shane Trucking and Excavating, pulled his workers off the Music City Loop site in Nashville on Monday because he says Musk’s company, The Boring Project, has only paid him five percent of what he’s owed.

“We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” Shane told The Nashville Banner.

“We were supposed to be paid every 15 days. And then they switched accounting firms, and then it went from 15 days to 60,” he went on, adding it’s now been more than 120 days since they first broke ground at the site.

While Shane did not put a specif

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