Watch: Boring machines pulled from Toronto’s Crosstown light rail project

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT project faces another delay.

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Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown light rail project continues to hum along, as workers push to construct 24 stations along the 19-km route.

Two tunnel boring machines were recently lifted from the project, marking the end of the 10-km underground framework construction. Crews took apart the 10-m-long, 400-tonne machines. Both pieces of equipment will now be sold for scrap.

The boring machine’s journey began in June 2013, when they were lowered under Eglinton Avenue. It took the machines three years to carve out the western segment of the subway portion of the Crosstown. After reaching the halfway mark the machines stopped so the rest of the construction work could catch up.

The Crosstown project was originally expected to be complete in the fall of 2021, but now the system will not open until 2022.

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