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A LOOP Nashville review of the project’s 2025 environmental assessment found a mapped Broadway alignment extending from Centennial Park to the East Bank, including a specific Cumberland River crossing that engineers evaluated with roughly 25 feet of rock above the tunnel crown. The crossing is absent from The Boring Company’s current public route description.
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The Boring Company has not publicly named the site where Prufrock-MB3 will launch later this month, but company documents, property records and utility filings point strongly to 200 Jupiter Drive near Nashville International Airport.
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The Boring Company says two Music City Loop tunnel boring machines are now mining at the same time, MB3 is preparing for a late-October launch, MB4 is being built, and more than 40 stations remain in planning and design.
Read itNashville already has driverless vehicles on public streets. Guest contributor Gleb Tsipursky argues the Music City Loop should define where automated authority ends and human authority begins before driverless operations arrive underground.
Read guest opinionThe first routes establish a starting point—not an endpoint. New stations and branches could extend the network as neighborhoods, destinations, and private partners connect over time.
Explore every mapA practical guide to how the proposed system would work, how it could expand, and what still has to happen.
Read the complete Music City Loop guideElectric vehicles would carry small groups through dedicated underground tunnels, traveling directly between selected stations.
The publicly described first network links BNA, downtown, Lower Broadway, Capitol Hill, and the West End corridor.
Additional branches and stations could be added as neighborhoods, venues, employers, and private properties join the system.
The Boring Company says construction and operation will be privately funded, with public approvals still required.
A point-to-point network designed to reduce surface congestion and make trips between major Nashville destinations more predictable.
Engineering, environmental review, permits, station agreements, construction, testing, and future route announcements will shape the final system.
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