The Evergreen Line will connect Coquitlam to Vancouver via Port Moody and Burnaby, and a big chunk of it will be underground.
Digging the new $1.4 billion Evergreen Rapid Transit line requires one big machine.
A boring machine, that’s anything but boring. It’s the widest tunneling machine in B.C. history.
That machine was delivered and partially assembled today.
When its starts powering into Burnaby Mountain in February, it’ will be able to dig a hole big enough to accommodate two Skytrain lines.
In total, it’ll be a 90 meter long self contained drilling machine, moving debris from the front to the back via augers and onto rail cars and out of the tunnel.
From Clark and View Street, the machine will bore into the mountainside and in a southwest direction.
At its deepest point, it will be about 60 meters below the surface.
The machine will resurface 2 kilometers away, emerging near Como Lake Road and onto an elevated track.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of boring machine in the Lower Mainland.
Twin tunnels were drilled below False Creek to connect the Canada Line on Cambie Street.
The machine now being assembled in Port Moody is almost twice as wide, and needs to drill only in one direction.
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