Breakthrough: Broadway subway tunnel-boring machine reaches City Hall station – BC | 24CA News
Construction on Vancouver’s Broadway subway has reached one other milestone, with the primary of two tunnel-boring machines breaking by to the Broadway-City Hall transit station.
In a media launch Friday, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure stated the large piece of kit breached the station development website Friday afternoon.
The Broadway-City Hall station is being expended from its present type, which serves the Canada Line, to incorporate the subway and would be the largest and busiest station on the Millennium Line extension.
Passengers will be capable of join between the 2 strains underground, and the station shall be upgraded to incorporate extra capability, a second elevator and extra escalators to deal with the elevated quantity.
The machine is called Elsie after Elizabeth ‘Elsie’ MacGill, who was the world’s first feminine aeronautical engineer {and professional} plane designer and was born in B.C.
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It is scheduled to bear upkeep on its cutterhead, earlier than being relocated to the west facet of the station to proceed tunnelling in the direction of the long run Oak-VGH station. Breakthrough at that website will mark its arrival on the midway level of the 5.7 kilometre Millennium Line extension.
The second tunnel-boring machine, which not too long ago broke by on the Mount Pleasant Station website, is called Phyllis after Phyllis Munday, who was a famous mountaineer who based Girl Guides in B.C. and the province’s first St. John Ambulances Brigade in North Vancouver. It is slated to re-launch for the dig to Broadway-City Hall station subsequent week.
The completed undertaking will see the Millennium Line prolonged from its present terminus at VCC-Clark to Arbutus Street, with an preliminary price estimate of $2.8 billion.
A future growth from Arbutus Street to UBC is supported by the City of Vancouver, UBC and the TransLink Mayor’s Council, however has not secured funding.
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