Elon Musk says his futuristic transport tunnel in Los Angeles is "worryingly long"

It seems to last forever, snaking under the suburbs of Hawthorne, California, like an underwater slide.

This weekend, billionaire inventor Elon Musk claimed that he was browsing every centimeter of the nearly completed "test tunnel" of his Boring company, used for research and development of public transport systems.

Musk rating: The tunnel is "excessively long" but almost ready for an opening night and public tours soon after, as he noted when posting a tunnel video on Twitter.

Although appearing longer, the tunnel begins in a parking lot of SpaceX headquarters and continues underground for up to three kilometers, Boring said.

The test tunnel is the first step of a much more ambitious goal: the construction of a new type of high-speed public transport system to transport up to 16 passengers by shuttle bus under Los Angeles. Moving at 150 mph, a stretch of electric transportation system known as a "dugout canoe loop" would allow someone to move from downtown Los Angeles to the Los Angeles International Airport. in eight minutes, says the company.

The company says this route would be particularly useful at special events.

"Initially, Dugout Loop will be limited to about 1,400 people (about 2.5% of the stadium's capacity) per event," the company says on its website. "Based on city and community feedback, it may be possible to increase the number of passengers per game to 2,800 per game or event (5% of stadium capacity). Between games and events, Dugout Loop would carry 250,000 people a year. "

The tunnel is not limited to shuttles. Elevators would take pedestrians, cyclists or railway station cars at street level to underground tunnels.

The cost of a ride: 1 $.

"It's the only way to think about chronic circulation problems in big cities," Musk said at an information session in May. "Almost every city in the world has serious traffic problems, and no solution seems to be around the corner."

The futuristic plan, which has no proposed schedule, is not limited to Los Angeles. The Boring Company also discussed tunnel projects along the east coast and Chicago.