Tunnelling reaches halfway point on major Canadian subway project
A major milestone has been reached beneath the streets of Toronto, as tunnelling on the Scarborough Subway Extension passes the ...
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TBM Libby’s cutterhead has officially arrived on site, marking a decisive step toward launching tunnelling beneath downtown Toronto. The cutterhead—Libby’s most recognisable and ...
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Two new TBMs in the Metrolinx family have officially been named Libby and Corkie, following a naming contest launched in June 2025 — which saw more than 900 submissions and over 1,000 votes ...
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Metrolinx is creating a second tunnel launch shaft near Gerrard Street and Carlaw Avenue which is now under construction. This will serve as the starting point for the second underground section of ...
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On August 6, 2025, Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx awarded North End Connectors a fixed-price C$1.4 billion contract to design, build, and finance the advance tunnelling phase of the Yonge ...
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The first two TBMs have arrived in Canada. They will dig the tunnels in the southern ...
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On 15/04/2025 crews have started digging the tunnels that will connect the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension to the existing terminus of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (to be known as Line 5 Eglinton ...
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Excavation is now underway near Exhibition Station for the Ontario Line’s TBM launch site. A 16-m deep shaft will become the starting point for two TBMs that will dig a roughly 6 km pair of ...
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Renny, the last West End Connectors’s TBM on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE) project, has officially completed its 6.3-km journey from Renforth Drive to the extraction shaft, ...
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Press release - One of two twin tunnel boring machines digging the western underground segment of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension has broken through the final ...
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The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension project at Toronto has hit two major milestones - Rexy, one of the TBMs has completed 6 kms of tunnelling so far. The other TBM, Renny, has completed just over ...
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Last week the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension reached another milestone: Renny, the first TBM to start tunnelling passed the halfway point, digging over 3 km of the roughly 6 km ...
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TBM Diggy Scardust has officially started tunnelling for the Scarborough’s 7.8-km subway extension that will bring subway service farther north into Scarborough and accommodate as many as ...
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In the last six months Renny, the first TBM to start tunnelling between Renforth Drive and Scarlett Road for the contractor West End Connectors Construction (WECC) has tunnelled 1.9 km, while Rexy, ...
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Metrolinx reached another milestone for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension with the second TBM, named Rexy, starting the journey from Renforth Drive to Scarlett Road. The second tunnel for the ...
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On the 11/04/2022 Metrolinx marked a major milestone as tunnelling began on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, the 9.2-km extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT from Mount Dennis Station to ...
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Metrolinx marked the start of construction on the Ontario Line subway project, beginning with upgrades at Exhibition Station. These early works will be completed before major construction begins ...
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The Ontario Line draft Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be made available for public review and comment from 07/02/2022 to 09/03/2022. The draft report describes existing ...
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The Yonge North Subway Extension (YNSE) is a long-awaited project that will bring faster transit to more people across York Region and Toronto. It will extend TTC's Line 1 (Yonge University) roughly ...
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After thousands of votes from the community, the winning names are in for the Scarborough Subway Extension’s TBM and the two machines that will build the Eglinton Crosstown West ...
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The TBMs, which will dig the tunnels for the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto, arrived at the ports of Oshawa and Hamilton in mid-December 2021. ...
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On 19/10/2021 Metrolinx introduced their naming contest for the 3 giant machines that will dig the tunnels for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension and Scarborough Subway Extension in the Greater ...
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The Factory Acceptance Ceremony for STRABAG’s 12m EPB TBM took place yesterday at the Herrenknecht AG workshop in Schwanau, Germany. The TBM will tunnel the Metrolinx & Infrastructure ...
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On 23/06/2021 Metrolinx officially broke ground on the Scarborough Subway Extension, though work is already well underway. At the northeast corner of Sheppard and McCowan, crews are building the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have identified Strabag and West End Connectors as the First Negotiations Proponents (FNPs) to design, build and finance the tunnels for the Scarborough ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for procurement packages for the Ontario Line subway project. Teams have been shortlisted and invited to bid ...
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Metrolinx has been sharing improved plans for the Ontario Line in Toronto, as teams learn more about the geography and infrastructure, both above ground and below the surface as well as ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Request for Proposals (RFPs) to teams who have recently been shortlisted to bid on the advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have shortlisted six teams for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension projects. ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project. The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ...
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The Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit project has seen plenty of progress! Recently, the project reached an important milestone. As part of a testing and commissioning phase, a light rail ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension ...
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The Crosstown project, owned by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), is a light rail transit (LRT) line that will run across Eglinton Avenue between Mount Dennis (Weston ...
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On 17.08.2016 the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Toronto’s new 19-km light rail transit (LRT) line project that will run along Eglinton Avenue with a central 10 km underground section, reached ...
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The two TBMs driving the western segment of the 10 km-long underground tunnel on Toronto’s Eglington Crosstown reached the half-way point of their journey on 21.01.2015, breaking through into ...
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Caterpillar Inc has announced that it is pulling out of the tunnelling business and closing its plant in Etobicoke, Canada which it bought from Lovat Inc just five years ago.
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