Dubai is building The Loop: 93 km of air-conditioned bike path
In Dubai, the firm URB is planning a 93 km climate-controlled cycling and walking corridor so people can ride year-round despite the desert heat. Against +45 °C there, against winter here: exactly the same diagnosis as Bike Tunnel Québec — with one major difference, glass at the surface rather than rock underground.
"Nobody rode the metro before the metro": demand always follows infrastructure
Highways that fill up, the Laval metro doubling its forecasts, the Canada Line beaten by 13 years, Seville multiplying its cyclists elevenfold: everywhere, across every mode, transport demand follows infrastructure — never the other way around. Counting January's cyclists is like counting swimmers under a bridge.
Nashville puts a price on rock tunnelling — and our estimate stays more conservative
US$240 to $300M for 13 miles of twin tunnels in Nashville, in limestone the same age as Québec's rock: about $9 to $11.5M per bored mile. Our realistic scenario uses $15M — 30 to 65% more than The Boring Company's announced price — and the project holds up even at full conventional rates.
Tunnel Vision Challenge: The Boring Company validates the bike tunnel — and Panama proves it
In 2026, The Boring Company launched a global contest offering to dig a tunnel for free — pedestrians and bikes included. The City of Panama proposed a cycling tunnel under the canal (the "Canal Underline"), still under study in spring 2026. What that proves for our project.
Read the article →The Boring Company in 2026: drilling record, Dubai and remote operation
A record 3.7 km bore in a single run, a deal signed in Dubai, machines supervised from Texas and a target of roughly US$2.5M per kilometre: an update on the technology behind our project.
Read the article →Bergen already has its bike tunnel: 2.9 km under the mountain
Since 2023, cyclists in Bergen, Norway, cross the Løvstakken mountain through a tunnel designed for them — the longest in the world. Full-scale proof that the concept works, and several lessons for the Québec project.
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