The Boring Company has finished drilling its first test tunnel in Los Angeles

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling company, has fully excavated its first tunnel. This weekend the machine broke through the last remaining patch of ground under Los Angeles. Ultimately, electric shuttles will have to carry passengers through the tunnel.

Musk posted this weekend two short videos on Twitter showing that the digger has reached the end of the tunnel. The tunnel ends in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Los Angeles, somewhere on private property that The Boring Company has purchased, Ars Technica said. The trail starts at the SpaceX headquarters parking lot, also in Hawthorne. The entire tunnel is between 3 and 4 kilometers long. The public is expected to be able to take rides in the tunnel from December 10.

Small shuttles will run through the tunnel on a track at a speed of almost 250 kilometers per hour. In a Hyperloop, the tunnel contains a near-vacuum and speeds reach around 1000 km/h. Entry and exit points at this tunnel should be the size of a single car parking space. According to Musk, tickets will be cheaper than traveling by bus.

In addition to passenger shuttles, Musk also wants cars to be transported in the tunnels in the future. In addition, he strives to improve tunnel drilling technology so that water, gas and electricity pipes can be laid more efficiently and cheaper. The company’s slogan is beat the snail, which refers to the fact that such tunneling operations normally go literally slower than a snail.

The tunnel’s terminus, O’Leary Station, is named after a recently deceased employee of SpaceX and The Boring Company, according to Ars Technica. In the future, Musk wants to build such tunnels between New York and Washington DC, in Chicago and a longer one in Los Angeles.