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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

Conrad Black said:
The first TBM is almost at Oakwood. Allen Road is really close.
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You think traffic at Allen and Eglinton is bad now. Soon they'll be removing the TBM from the west side of Allen, taking it over Allen, then reassembling it in the hole on the east side of Allen. Then, once it started boring again, all the equipment and dump trucks that are currently operating out at Black Creek will be start operating at Allen instead. Fun times.
 
How will the area from the west side of the Allen to the east side side of the Allen be tunnelled if not with the TBM and when?
 
Palma said:
How will the area from the west side of the Allen to the east side side of the Allen be tunnelled if not with the TBM and when?
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It's basically just the new station there that'll need to be built later.
It's not exactly clear how they will do it, but it will involve some level of likely having to close the existing Subway while they build the new station underneath, but not until most of the rest of the tunneling is complete.
The same will likely have to happen at Yonge St as well.
 
howl said:
You think traffic at Allen and Eglinton is bad now. Soon they'll be removing the TBM from the west side of Allen, taking it over Allen, then reassembling it in the hole on the east side of Allen. Then, once it started boring again, all the equipment and dump trucks that are currently operating out at Black Creek will be start operating at Allen instead. Fun times.
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Ahhh quit whining. That's not the right attitude buddy. You could learn a thing or two from the the Toronto Subway Song :rolleyes:

[video=youtube;IPrO6jW9fYc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrO6jW9fYc[/video]
 
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howl said:
You think traffic at Allen and Eglinton is bad now. Soon they'll be removing the TBM from the west side of Allen, taking it over Allen, then reassembling it in the hole on the east side of Allen. Then, once it started boring again, all the equipment and dump trucks that are currently operating out at Black Creek will be start operating at Allen instead. Fun times.
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Use Lawrence and Marlee to bypass the traffic.
 
TBM tracker updated yesterday. The second TBM has passed Dufferin, and the first one is about 550m away from the extraction shaft.
 
It really sucks that the western portion of this line has to wait until the entire tunnel is bored before work can start on stations. Such a pointless delay. Stations should start construction the day the boring machine leaves the extraction shaft to be moved east of the Allen.
 
Tuscani01 said:
It really sucks that the western portion of this line has to wait until the entire tunnel is bored before work can start on stations. Such a pointless delay. Stations should start construction the day the boring machine leaves the extraction shaft to be moved east of the Allen.
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yes, but perhaps they can't spend all the budget in 3-4 years, hence the need to spread it across 7-8 years?
 
sixrings said:
Hoping smart track stops at Mount Dennis and the eglinton let gets extended to Pearson.
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Eglinton won't go to Pearson for another 30 years.

Regular GO REX service with a people mover connection to Pearson seems highly likely within the next 10 years though, possibly even before funded Eglinton portions open.
 
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