Broadway Subway

• Broadway subway: 2nd tunnel-boring machine breaks through at City Hall station

  The breakthrough comes just over a month after machine's partner, nickjnamed Elsie, also broke through at the Broadway-City Hall station site. 

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  May 26
  
• Breakthrough: Broadway subway tunnel-boring machine reaches City Hall station

  In a media release Friday, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure said the massive piece of equipment breached the station construction site Friday afternoon.

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  Apr 14
  
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• Broadway bike lane? Idea approved by Vancouver council could face chopping block

  Should Vancouver build a dedicated bike lane on Broadway? Council approved the idea last year, but a report to council could scuttle the proposal for now.

  Politics

  Mar 24
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• ‘It’s unfair’: Business group calls for support as more shops shutter during Broadway construction

  According to the Mount Pleasant BIA, at least 56 businesses along the Broadway Subway Project line are "papered-up" or displaying "for lease" signs in the windows.

  Politics

  Mar 21
• Vancouver businesses close as heritage building façade crumbles

  Businesses in a heritage building on East Broadway in Vancouver were forced to close as engineers assessed the health of the building's brick exterior.

  Economy

  Mar 14
• Broadway subway hits key milestone as tunnel crew breaks through to 1st station site

  The breakthrough represents the first completed tunnel segment on the new line, running from the future Great Northern Way-Emily Carr station to the future Mount Pleasant Station.

  Canada

  Jan 24
• Vancouver business closing due to Broadway subway construction

  Surinder Sangha, owner of a Subway restaurant, says she’ll be closing down because business has been down by more than 75 per cent since the project’s construction began.

  Economy

  Jan 15
• Broadway corridor businesses urge shoppers to buy local as subway construction delayed

  “It was a little bit of a kick in the gut,” said Portside Interiors owner Gene Guindon upon learning the Broadway subway line's completion date was delayed to early 2026.

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  Nov 28, 2022
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• Broadway subway completion delayed to 2026 due to summer concrete strike: Ministry

  The ministry has pinned the delay on a five-week concrete strike in June, which it said affected the start of tunnel boring. 

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  Nov 24, 2022
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• Meet ‘Elsie’ and ‘Phyllis’: Tunnel-boring machines for Broadway Subway set to launch

  Each of the two cylindrical tunnel boring machines is six metres wide and weights around a million kilograms.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2022