The next stage of tunnel construction for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) will see two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) “Yorkie” and “Torkie” create twin tunnels linking the site of the future Highway 407 Station to the Steeles West Station site.
VAUGHAN, ONT.
The next stage of tunnel construction for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) will see two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) “Yorkie” and “Torkie” create twin tunnels linking the site of the future Highway 407 Station to the Steeles West Station site.
The TBMs will bore a little more than one kilometre of twin subway tunnels at a rate of approximately 15 metres a day, southeast from this launch location to an extraction site. Two other TBMS, “Holey” and “Moley” are drilling twin tunnels that will connect three stations: Sheppard West, Downsview Park and Finch West.
The TYSSE project is an 8.6-kilometre extension of the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) Yonge-University-Spadina subway line from its present terminus at Downsview Station to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre at Highway 7. The TYSSE is expected to be completed by fall 2016 and will generate thousands of jobs from construction.
The federal government has committed up to $697 million to the project, $622 million through its Building Canada Fund. The remaining $75 million has already been transferred to the project under the Public Transit Capital Trust 2006. The province has provided $870 million through the Move Ontario Trust. The City of Toronto is contributing $526 million to the project and The Regional Municipality of York is contributing $352 million. The TTC is the project manager.
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