Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed - Page 454

nname · #**9061** Posted **Nov 15, 2015, 10:33 PM**

Looks like the maintenance was over? The TBM is passed through the maintenance site and at Thompson Ave as of Nov 10th. Only 280m to go till breakthrough.

http://www.evergreenline.gov.bc.ca/documents/InformationSheets/151110_TunnelBoringMachine-Map.pdf

At this rate, the breakthrough should be around Dec 1st?

hollywoodnorth · #**9062** Posted **Nov 15, 2015, 11:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by nname

Looks like the maintenance was over? The TBM is passed through the maintenance site and at Thompson Ave as of Nov 10th. Only 280m to go till breakthrough.

http://www.evergreenline.gov.bc.ca/documents/InformationSheets/151110_TunnelBoringMachine-Map.pdf

At this rate, the breakthrough should be around Dec 1st?

wow thanks for the update. looks like we are on the home stretch now!

red-paladin · #**9063** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 2:02 AM**

Almost there!

jsbertram · #**9064** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 2:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

Almost there!

and no more sink-holes

swimmer_spe · #**9065** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 2:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by jsbertram

and no more sink-holes

They aren't done yet!

Sink holes could still happen.

GeeCee · #**9066** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 3:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

They aren't done yet!

Sink holes could still happen.

True, but they've only happened over the air gap when performing maintenance. We should be in the clear now..

Large Cat · #**9067** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 8:03 AM**

Go Alice Go!!! Go Alice Go!!!!!

AMTDGT · #**9068** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 6:07 PM**

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Go Alice Go!!! Go Alice Go!!!!!

Anybody know where Alice is headed after she is finished. Does she have enough life left in her to get from the Finning lands to Arbutus?

Large Cat · #**9069** Posted **Nov 16, 2015, 7:19 PM**

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Anybody know where Alice is headed after she is finished. Does she have enough life left in her to get from the Finning lands to Arbutus?

YES YES YES!!!!!!!

officedweller · #**9070** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 12:16 AM**

Unlikely -

It depends on who owns the TBM.
EGRT may have just leased it for use on the Evergreen Line.
(The TBM used on the Canada Line was leased and afterwards was sent off to a job in Russia)

swimmer_spe · #**9071** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 12:18 AM**

Too bad a city did not buy one and then once done one job, they simply start the next.

CanSpice · #**9072** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 12:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

Too bad a city did not buy one and then once done one job, they simply start the next.

Which city would buy it? Or do you mean TransLink? Why would they buy one when they don't have another tunnelling project funded and ready to go? And why would they want to spend the money on it in the first place, when they can just lease one for the time it's needed?

swimmer_spe · #**9073** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 12:47 AM**

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Which city would buy it? Or do you mean TransLink? Why would they buy one when they don't have another tunnelling project funded and ready to go? And why would they want to spend the money on it in the first place, when they can just lease one for the time it's needed?

I am thinking cities like Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal.

Adding underground sections or new tunnels for roads would be easier if they owned the equipment. It would also be an incentive to keep building.

nname · #**9074** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 1:06 AM**

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I am thinking cities like Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal.

Adding underground sections or new tunnels for roads would be easier if they owned the equipment. It would also be an incentive to keep building.

Each tunnel have different requirement though. For instance, a TBM built for SkyTrain construction would be too small for road and too big for sewer projects.

Also, I'm pretty sure Broadway would use smaller twin tunnels rather than the one used for Evergreen. Otherwise, the tunnel and stations have to be much deeper.

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TBM location map was updated today:
http://www.evergreenline.gov.bc.ca/documents/InformationSheets/151116_TunnelBoringMachine-Map.pdf

Only about 230m to go!

officedweller · #**9075** Posted **Nov 17, 2015, 1:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

I am thinking cities like Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal.

Adding underground sections or new tunnels for roads would be easier if they owned the equipment. It would also be an incentive to keep building.

That doesn't work because the governmental entity (whether it be municipal, regional or provincial) does not do the work itself. It contracts out the work for big projects such as these, and the contractor would not want to be saddled with using someone else's equipment (which may have different specifications than they want to build).