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Article: Vancouver begins tunnel boring for new rail line.(INDUSTRY TODAY)

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July 1, 2006
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A ceremony at the future False Creek South Station in Vancouver marked the start of tunnel boring construction for the Canada Line from False Creek to the downtown core. The Canada Line will be underground from Waterfront Station to 64th Avenue. Seventy-five percent of the tunnel will be built by cut-and-cover method. The remaining section of the tunnel will be built as twin-bored tunnels using the tunnel-boring machine.

Two twin-bored tunnels, each measuring 2.5 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) in length, will be dug to allow the Canada Line to run in both directions, for a total of five kilometers (about 3.4 miles) of tunnel. The tunnel-boring machine will bore ...

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