Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed

jsbertram · #11 Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 12:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by queetz@home

Drove at the North Road area again. Weather was crappy so no pics, but my observations...

1) The slanted guideway above Como Lake is not 100% fixed as of today. Its still slightly mis-aligned, but there were lots of workmen at both ends. So presumably they are still working on it. Whether it means more road closure, we don't know...

2) The guideways are in place up to the last of the Burquitlam Station beam. The last segment is still attached to the gantry crane so I guess the epoxy is still drying (though its been wet lately so I dunno how that will work).

3) There is only *ONE* column left to be poured between Foster St and Cameron. The rest are pretty much complete, with only the form on top of a column immediately south of Gatineau Place and a few of those square thingies on top need to be filled for the one south of that (and north of the steel guideways).

4) The stack of rails that I reported at the South Tunnel portal area seemed to have increased in volume. Maybe they will be used for the TBM and may be stored there while they reconfigure the North Tunnel portal area, but still seems so counterintuitive to store them there, only to move them later (plenty of places to put them in North Port Moody). I do feel that perhaps those rails are for the Skytrain, and they will start to instal them once the Como Lake guideway has been fixed.

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if the rails are being piled up at the South Tunnel portal area (near Como Lake and Clarke Road), I would expect them to be used on the elevated track guideways that the gantry crane has already built. As the gantry crane builds the elevated track guideways (heading south to Lougheed), more rails will likely be stored there just before they are installed on the new track guideways.

Since the TBM will take the rest of this year to complete the tunnel and then most of next year will be needed to finish the tunnel interior, I can't see these rails sitting and rusting for over a year while the tunnel is being built and finished.