The system is designed to transport more than 20,000 passengers per hour across Dubai. Elon Musk has described the planned tunnel network as a “wormhole” through the city. The Boring Company has yet to confirm which Tesla models will be used in the Loop.

The tunneling company announced on Thursday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai transit authorities to explore the project.

Elon Musk has signed on to a new construction project in Dubai that will connect the city with dozens of underground roads. Musk's The Boring Company, which is responsible for building a similar project in Las Vegas,

Ambitious proposals from Elon Musk for an underground road system in Dubai could make a positive difference to traffic in the city, but it needs to be more than a reproduction of the loop in Las Vegas,