Even if we more than likely won't be able to board the Eglinton Crosstown LRT anytime this year, the forever-under-construction transit route's 9.2...
On Monday, the Province of Ontario and Metrolinx commemorated the completion of underground tunnelling for the western portion Crosstown West Extension , a line that will run another seven stops from the main LRT 's existing western terminus at Mount Dennis station.
📰 UPDATE: Tunnelling for the western underground segment of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension is complete! 🚇🎉The two gigantic tunnel boring machines, named Rexy and Renny, emerged through the final wall of their journeys at the end ofWith the colossal pieces of equipment now removed from their extraction shaft, work can commence on the tunnel portal itself that future LRT vehicles will travel through between subterranean and above ground portions of the line.
The trips that Rexy and Renny just wrapped up, meanwhile, were a whopping 6.3 km each, side by side, and included the removal of 1.2 million tonnes of soil and rock from between just east of Renforth Drive to just past Royal York Boulevard.
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