Music City Loop

The Music City Loop is The Boring Company's underground transit project in Nashville, Tennessee. It is under construction. The design follows the company's Las Vegas Loop: riders board Teslas and travel through tunnels straight to the station they picked, with no stops in between. The public project page is at boringcompany.com/music-city-loop.

What is the Music City Loop?

It is a Nashville Loop: an all-electric, point-to-point underground ride system built by The Boring Company. The first tunnel boring machine launch site is at Lot 16, near the Tennessee State Capitol. From there the planned network links downtown, West End, and Nashville International Airport (BNA). The company's FAQ says it will take approximately 10 minutes to travel from BNA to Lower Broadway.

Why the Music City Loop Exists

The Boring Company exists to put traffic underground. Elon founded it after posting in 2016 that traffic was driving him nuts and that he was going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging. Las Vegas became the first city where a Loop carried paying passengers. Nashville is the next city-scale Loop on this site: same company, same tunnel-and-Tesla idea, a new downtown.

How it Works

A rider boards a Tesla at a station and travels with no stops in between. That is the Loop trick, the same one already running under Las Vegas. The machines doing the digging are from the company's Prufrock line. The June 2026 company blog reported status on two Music City machines, Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2.

The Economics of the Music City Loop

The Boring Company's Music City Loop FAQ says the system is 100% privately funded, using no taxpayer dollars for construction or operation, and that the total project cost is expected to be a few hundred million dollars. Fare prices have not been announced.

Current Status of the Music City Loop

The project is under construction. The Tennessee Department of Transportation permit was executed in February 2026, and tunneling began late February 2026, per The Boring Company's April 2026 blog. The June 2026 blog reported that all 37 pre-tunneling permits had been obtained, and gave Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 machine status. Company guidance has pointed toward operations around 2027.

What Comes Next

The planned map points at three Nashville anchors: downtown, West End, and BNA. Opening to passengers is not on the record yet. The company's published guidance has pointed toward operations around 2027. How closely the build matches that year will be the next fact to watch, the same way station counts became the scoreboard in Las Vegas.

The Bottom Line

The Music City Loop is The Boring Company's Nashville system, already in the ground at Lot 16, aimed at downtown, West End, and the airport. Las Vegas proved a Loop can carry millions of riders. Nashville is the test of whether that model travels.

Related

Keep reading: Las Vegas Loop, Prufrock. Zoom out to the The Boring Company overview, or open the Ventures Map.