WestEnd Connectors’ scope of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown West Extension has officially achieved substantial completion.
The milestone marks the successful completion of two 6.3km tunnels, nine cross-passages, 12 headwalls for four underground stations and two emergency exit buildings, construction of the launch shaft and Light Rail Transit portal.
WestEnd Connectors, consisting of Dragados Canada Inc, Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc, and Ghella Canada Ltd, says all the structures were completed with over 1.9 million hours worked without a lost time injury.
The consortium added that the achievement was the result of “outstanding collaboration, planning, and commitment from the WestEnd Connectors team, Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario, and all our partners, Aecon, FlatironDragados and Ghella, designers, Exp & Typsa, subcontractors and stakeholders”.
TBMs Rexy and Renny spent two years excavating the twin tunnels, completing their drives on the western section last year.
Over the next decade Ontario is investing nearly C$70bn (€45bn) in public transit, which includes the largest subway expansion in Canadian history, covering the Ontario Line, the Scarborough Subway Extension, the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension and the Yonge North Subway Extension.
Once complete, Toronto’s 9km Eglinton Crosstown West Extension will connect seven new stations to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, making travel faster and more convenient, while bringing more than 37,500 people within a 10-minute walk of transit facilities.
