Eglinton finishes west tunnels
25 May 2016Canada – Tunnelling is now complete on the 6.2m-long western segment of the 10km tunnel of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) line, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation announced on May 10.
Two 6.5m-diameter TBMs boring the western segment tunnels, arrived at Yonge Street having travelled 6,419m from their launch at Black Creek Drive in June and September 2013. Each TBM installed 25,647 precast concrete tunnel segments, manufactured by Decast, formerly Munro, which formed 4,279 rings.
Metrolinx awarded the first of two tunnelling contracts for the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown tunnel, worth CAD 320M (USD 328M), in September 2012 to Crosstown Transit Constructors, a joint venture of Obayashi Canada, Kenny Construction, Kenaidan Contracting and Technicore Underground.
"We are making considerable progress on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line," said Ontario's minister of transportation Steven Del Duca. "The completion of tunnelling from the west to Yonge Street is a significant step for the project and 19 kilometres of new rapid transit for Toronto."
An Aecon-ACS Dragados Canada Inc. JV launched two more TBMs on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project in September 2015, which are tunnelling westbound from the launch shaft located east of Brentcliffe Road towards Yonge Street.
The new LRT line will have a total of 25 stations and stops along Eglinton Avenue between Weston Road and Kennedy Station, and LRT is one of the largest public transit projects currently under construction in Canada.
