Toronto Ontario Line: Corktown Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | HDR

kotsy said:
If there's no TBMing south of Front, how are they getting to the portal? Doesn't seem like an area that can be done cut and cover.
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SEM mining of two tunnels from just south of Front st to just east of Cherry st, where the remaining stretch to the portal is cut and cover.

They’re also using SEM to dig underneath Front st, too many utilities in the way just below street level.
 
Excited, but looking around- can’t help but think this won’t be finished in my lifetime.

Sheppard took 9yrs for 5.5km of straight tunnel.

Ontario Line is 15.6, with above and below ground, tunnelling, twists and turns in the most inefficient and incompetent era.

Like maaaaaybe things speed up in the 19th year of Doug Ford’s reign, after amalgamating the PM’s office with the premiership and Toronto mayoralty - and making the cyclists imprisoned with “bike crime” work “voluntarily” for reduced sentencing. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford my No Frill’s vaccines by then.
 
jxmith_ said:
Excited, but looking around- can’t help but think this won’t be finished in my lifetime.

Sheppard took 9yrs for 5.5km of straight tunnel.

Ontario Line is 15.6, with above and below ground, tunnelling, twists and turns in the most inefficient and incompetent era.
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What I gleam from this is you’re nearing your death bed.

There are 4 major tunnelling activities, all which can be done in parallel. The mining mentioned above, then one TBM travelling ~1.5km, another travelling ~3.0km, and another travelling ~3.3km.

Station and portal work is advancing rapidly across the whole line. The slowest out the gate is the north contract works (which was latest to be awarded iirc).

jxmith_ said:
Like maaaaaybe things speed up in the 19th year of Doug Ford’s reign, after amalgamating the PM’s office with the premiership and Toronto mayoralty - and making the cyclists imprisoned with “bike crime” work “voluntarily” for reduced sentencing. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford my No Frill’s vaccines by then.
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Give it a rest, mate, this isn’t the place for it.
 
South of Front St update from today:

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