Elsie, one of the two boring machines working to clear a tunnel under Broadway has made it to the SkyTrain station at the intersection with Cambie Street.
The machine broke through at Broadway-City Hall on Friday, April 14, completing the stretch from the Mount Pleasant station site in under three months. The Broadway-City Hall station is the second of five stations the tunnelling machine has to bore to.
"The Broadway Subway Project will extend the Millennium Line 5.7 kilometres from VCC-Clark Station to West Broadway and Arbutus Street," states the province in a press release.
Elsie is currently at its deepest point at this station at more than 20 meters underground; this is due to the Canada Line being above it.
Phyllis, the second of the two machines, is currently heading towards the Broadway-City Hall station. It has been about a month behind Elsie, boring a second tunnel.
Elsie will now pause for maintenance before continuing on later this spring. The next station is the halfway point: Oak-Vancouver General Hospital station.
