An ambitious project to connect Dubai’s most densely populated areas will see the emirate partnering with Elon Musk. The announcement of the project named ‘Dubai Loop’ came on Day 3 of the World Government Summit (WGS) 2025 during a session when Musk was speaking virtually with Omar Al Olama, UAE’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications.
“We’re going to announce the joint project of Dubai Loop, which is a loop project that is going to cover Dubai’s most densely populated areas for people to go from point to point,” said AlOlama at the tail end of a 30-minute session.
“It will be like a wormhole,” Musk said. “Like, you just wormhole from one part of the city and boom you’re out in another part of the city. I think once people try it out, they will think this is really cool.” He also said that once begun, the loop system is going to seem like an obvious choice of transport to connect busy areas in retrospect.
Al Olama also thanked Musk for the partnership. “We look forward to the partnership and we’re going to join the first trip, the first pod,” he said. Although more details were not revealed about the project, the announcement came at the end of a discussion about Musk’s The Boring Company and its efforts to build safe, fast, and low-cost tunnels across cities to solve traffic and transform cities.
Speaking about how the company has built tunnels across Los Angeles, Musk explained why it was such a great idea. “What’s really useful about tunnels is alleviating traffic in congested areas,” he said. “In Las Vegas, we’re busy connecting the whole city with all the big hotels, the convention center and the airport.”
He explained that the alternative to building tunnels is to use the airspace for flying taxis or helicopters. “But the challenge with doing is that they tend to be very noisy and they generate a lot of wind force,” he said. “And flying things tend to crash once in a while. If you have bad weather, let’s say there’s a blizzard or a sandstorm, nobody can fly. So transport shuts down. On the other hand, none of these problems exist with underground travel.” He also highlighted how tunnels were safe in extreme situations like an earthquake.
The announcement of The Loop came on Day 3 of the World Government Summit 2025 during a session when Musk was speaking virtually with Omar Al Olama, UAE’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications.
