Groundbreaking for the Parkway tunnel, part of Stage 2 West of the Confederation Line.
The project will include two new tunnel sections;
- the 3 kilometer Parkway tunnel between Dominion (to be renamed Kichi Sibi) station and Lincoln Fields station, that will run parallel to the Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway for about a kilometer, before crossing over 150 meters south-west to run under the Byron Linear Park, a former streetcar route. This new tunnel will solve the 30+ year service gap of the Transitway by providing two new open trench stations at Sherbourne and New Orchard.
- a 270 meter tunnel will be built in Connaught Park to link the Moodie branch flyover, just past Lincoln Fields, to the Queensview station trench.
A third 300 meter tunnel at Baseline station (to be renamed Algonquin station, for the college it serves) was roughed in about a decade ago, which will become the system's fifth underground station.
https://twitter.com/JR_Ottawa/status/1309557648396816385
Here's a map showing the location of the two new cut-and-cover tunnels.
https://ottawa.ca/en/planning-developmen...n-line-west-extension-spring-2020-update
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