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,

Despite a giant road network of six-lane highways criss-crossing Dubai, traffic jams are common in the fast-growing United Arab Emirates city of about 3.6 million people.

Elon Musk's The Boring Company and Dubai's Road and Transport Authority (RTA) have signed an initial agreement to build the Dubai Loop, an underground high-speed transport network spanning 17km (10.6 miles),

The Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘The Boring Company‘ to put up a loop system in Dubai, the Elon Musk-owned company said in a statement on Thursday.

Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum on Friday signed an agreement for construction of the Dubai Loop project with Elon Musk's infrastructure firm the Boring Company, Dubai Media Office said in a statement.

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.

Dubai is set to transform urban transportation with a groundbreaking underground transit system. Elon Musk’s Boring Company will collaborate with the Dubai Government and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to develop the Dubai Loop,