Media Advisory: LOVAT Inc. and TTC Announce Purchase of Tunnel Boring Machine from Canada Line Consortium
'Transit City is now Subway City' says TTC Chair
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 1, 2008) -
What: Delivery of LOVAT Inc.'s Tunnel Boring Machine to Toronto for Commencement of Continuous Subway Construction Program ("Subway City")
When: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Where: Downsview Subway Station (1035 Sheppard Avenue West, at William R. Allen Road)
Who will speak: Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Premier Dalton McGuinty, Mayor David Miller (Toronto), Mayor Linda Jackson (Vaughan), Mayor Hazel McCallion (Mississauga), Mayor Dave Barrow (Richmond Hill), Rt. Hon. Minister Lawrence Cannon (Ministry of Transport)
The Toronto Transit Commission and Metrolinx will be announcing today the purchase and delivery of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) from the Canada Line Consortium, following their completion of tunnel construction as part of the Canada Line in Vancouver on March 14, 2008. This purchase has allowed the TTC and Metrolinx to change from previous plans for Light Rail Transit in Toronto ("Transit City") to complete subway construction ("Subway City").
"This opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, and it was great timing that Vancouver finished their tunnel construction just as we are ramping up planning for Transit City," says TTC Chair Adam Giambroney, "Transit City is now Subway City!"
The Transit City plan called for the construction of seven new light rail transit lines to span across the City of Toronto. The plan will now be upgraded to be solely subway construction, including lines into Mississauga, Vaughan, and Richmond Hill. Construction is to begin by 2009, with completion of this ambitious subway expansion program by 2020.
For detailed media backgrounders on the LOVAT Inc. TBM, please visit:
http://www.lovat.com/
For detailed media backgrounders on the TTC Subway City Plan, please visit:
http://www.ttc.ca