Broadway Subway - Millennium Line Extension to Arbutus | U/C - Page 83

Jimbo604 · #**1641** Posted **Dec 9, 2022, 8:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Seems like they've already paved it. Just a bit of cleanup required.

When you use the traffic cam url as your source then the image is constantly updated to the current webcam image in your post.. I've done this myself, eg: "Look what's happening here!" and then later on the post shows the current cam image with nothing happening.

Disregard if this was your intention.

Jimbo604 · #**1642** Posted **Dec 9, 2022, 8:31 PM**

Didn't the project say they would be posting the bore machines' locations? Haven't seen anything so far or did I miss it?

Tin Foil Hat Time: maybe they are holding off until they reach Main street station and have finished going under the buildings they need to go under (with the rest of the route being solely under Broadway).

Or maybe they just haven't gotten around to it.

jollyburger · #**1643** Posted **Dec 9, 2022, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jimbo604

When you use the traffic cam url as your source then the image is constantly updated to the current webcam image in your post.. I've done this myself, eg: "Look what's happening here!" and then later on the post shows the current cam image with nothing happening.

Disregard if this was your intention.

Just being lazy I'll try to upload them next time

jollyburger · #**1644** Posted **Dec 9, 2022, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jimbo604

Didn't the project say they would be posting the bore machines' locations? Haven't seen anything so far or did I miss it?

Tin Foil Hat Time: maybe they are holding off until they reach Main street station and have finished going under the buildings they need to go under (with the rest of the route being solely under Broadway).

Or maybe they just haven't gotten around to it.

They have said that a few times but they still haven't said where it is. Maybe there's a contractual reason?

Hooknose · #**1645** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 4:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

They have said that a few times but they still haven't said where it is. Maybe there's a contractual reason?

Just an observation on time and schedule.

The first machine launched two months ago.
It is supposed to take one year to come out at Arbutus.
There are 5 stations to reach, so, if you allow a week or two for maintenance once a TBM reaches a station, it should do the distance between any two stations in about two months.
Which means ...
any day now for a breach to Main street by the first TBM.
Just a guess but I would like to suggest at least a semi-educated one.

jollyburger · #**1646** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 5:23 AM**

I'm waiting for it to get stuck on soft soil

Vantage · #**1647** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 7:20 AM**

Resident(s) living at Guelph and E 6th are claiming to hear and feel the TBM. From the Vancouver Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/zib9z4/subway_tunnel_boring_noise_and_vibration/

jollyburger · #**1648** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 8:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vantage

Resident(s) living at Guelph and E 6th are claiming to hear and feel the TBM. From the Vancouver Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/zib9z4/subway_tunnel_boring_noise_and_vibration/

I wonder why they didn't feel the first TBM?

Migrant_Coconut · #**1649** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 9:57 AM**

We once had a piledriver across the street for about a third of a year. You suck it up and get on with your life.

Hooknose · #**1650** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 5:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vantage

Resident(s) living at Guelph and E 6th are claiming to hear and feel the TBM. From the Vancouver Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/zib9z4/subway_tunnel_boring_noise_and_vibration/

Using some grade two level arithmetic, (and the Ruler on Google Earth) I figured out that there is about 500 feet between the start point for the second TBM and where the vibrations say they are now.

It has been about ten days since TBM 2 started, which works out to about 50 feet per day (or about 16 meters) ... pretty much on schedule.

I also figured out there is another 1800 feet from Guelph and 6th to a breakout at Main Street.

The first TBM launched in early October. That is about 60 days before TBM 1.

So TBM 1 should be just about at Main street ... just a day or two or three more.

The first breakthrough is when everyone will recognize that this project is on schedule and also .. well on the way.

WE can all calculate the days left until the first trains start running and we get opening day.

aberdeen5698 · #**1651** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hooknose

The first breakthrough is when everyone will recognize that this project is on schedule and also .. well on the way.

I'm just happy that we all seem to have agreed that the line is actually "under construction"...

Hooknose · #**1652** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698

I'm just happy that we all seem to have agreed that the line is actually "under construction"...

A little off topic but ... now that the end of the Broadway line may be in sight (and given the decade long planning process that our wonderful Fearless Leaders seem to glory in) ...

what's next?

UBC completion project?
Port Coquitlam extension?
Over the Pitt River to Maple Ridge extension (maybe Poco first and then this)
A live over the south side of the Fraser?
Lonsdale on the North Shore?

apologies if the group thinks this off topic but I am curious

aberdeen5698 · #**1653** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 7:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hooknose

A little off topic but ... now that the end of the Broadway line may be in sight (and given the decade long planning process that our wonderful Fearless Leaders seem to glory in) ...

what's next?

If you follow the heavy rail thread it's High Speed Rail to Seattle...

madog222 · #**1654** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 7:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hooknose

A little off topic but ... now that the end of the Broadway line may be in sight (and given the decade long planning process that our wonderful Fearless Leaders seem to glory in) ...

what's next?

UBC completion project?
Port Coquitlam extension?
Over the Pitt River to Maple Ridge extension (maybe Poco first and then this)
A live over the south side of the Fraser?
Lonsdale on the North Shore?

apologies if the group thinks this off topic but I am curious

Ignoring the extension to Langley which is effectively underway (all 3 major contracts are in procurement) the next rail rapid transit looks to be the UBC extension.
A North Shore line will happen soon but it looks like that will be BRT initially.

After that PoCo extension (not across the Pitt River) and a King George Boulevard line.

swimmer_spe · #**1655** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

Ignoring the extension to Langley which is effectively underway (all 3 major contracts are in procurement) the next rail rapid transit looks to be the UBC extension.
A North Shore line will happen soon but it looks like that will be BRT initially.

After that PoCo extension (not across the Pitt River) and a King George Boulevard line.

I didn't realize they were that far ahead into the Langley Extension.

jollyburger · #**1656** Posted **Dec 11, 2022, 8:01 PM**

I mean there's a Transit Fantasies thread.

Hooknose · #**1657** Posted **Dec 12, 2022, 12:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by madog222

Ignoring the extension to Langley which is effectively underway (all 3 major contracts are in procurement) the next rail rapid transit looks to be the UBC extension.
A North Shore line will happen soon but it looks like that will be BRT initially.

After that PoCo extension (not across the Pitt River) and a King George Boulevard line.

Thanks for the updates. There is certainly some planning in the works.

If you will remember (dating myself here) but the first skytrain was to new west. Then a one stop extension to Columbia street.
Then a one stop extension to Scott Road (across the Fraser)
Then an extension up the hill to King George. and now, extension four to Langley.

Poco is one extension. A bridge across the Pitt (with a large bus loop just on the other side) just repeats the Scott Road history.

Remember that 80% of all non ALR land that can be developed for more housing is in Maple Ridge and Mission. Not connecting that to RR just won't be reasonable in some larger time frame. I have the suspicion that RR to Maple Ridge, through some number of extensions and a couple of decades, is realistic to expect.

North Shore is obvious but how about an extension along number three in Richmond to cross the south Fraser with a ginormous bus loop and an even more ginormous car park??

Thanks for the comments , in any case.

Migrant_Coconut · #**1658** Posted **Dec 12, 2022, 1:13 AM**

Just gonna pre-emptively move this to our general transit thread.

Hooknose · #**1659** Posted **Dec 12, 2022, 3:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Just gonna pre-emptively move this to our general transit thread.

Thanks, following the thread there

Unregistered User · #**1660** Posted **Dec 13, 2022, 8:15 PM**

Drone footage of the entire alignment

https://twitter.com/broadwaysubway_/status/1602721308680327169

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