Elon Musk's first tunnel is all set to go live this week

Elon Musk's 'boring' plans (pun unintended) are finally coming to fruition as The Boring Company is done carving out its first segment. Musk announced the news on Twitter, where he said "Godot," the Samuel Beckett inspired name of the company's first boring machine has completed the first segment of the tunnel in Southern California metropolis.

This marks a major step in Musk's plans to build a transport network beneath the city. The announcement comes just weeks after Musk claimed he and Mayor of LA had promising talks about his plans to build an underground bus network.

Musk has made a rather flurry of announcements on Twitter to commemorate the milestone.

No longer waiting for Godot. It has begun boring and just completed the first segment of tunnel in LA.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2017

Across the road and below the ground pic.twitter.com/E2DG8EzaXg — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2017

The idea with the Boring Company — which Musk first introduced in a series of tweets last December while ruing the city's traffic — is to lower cars underground with an elevator. The cars will then travel on a platform, like a skate, to zip through a tunnel at speeds up to 130 miles per hour.  

Just installed steel skeleton of the car/pod elevator. Should be operating next week. pic.twitter.com/DIZW7zuWaA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2017

Though Musk didn't talk about the tunnel's location, his tweets suggest that The Boring Company's Godot machine has begun digging right across from the SpaceX building in Hawthorne, LA County.  At the TED Conference in April, the Tesla CEO showed an animation illustrating how the tunnel system would work.

“There’s no real limit to how many levels of tunnels you can have,” Musk explained. “The deepest mines are much deeper than the tallest buildings are tall.”