Local 793 members Gordon Myers, Noah Zeller, Tyler Mazurek and John Beauvais were busy at the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension project, carefully lifting out the 70-ton head of the tunnel boring machine (TBM), which spent more than two years excavating a tunnel for the western underground segment of the project.
Joining the members on this day was Business Rep, Jordan Glendenning.
Since 2022, twin tunnel boring machines, named Rexy and Renny, excavated approximately 1.2 million metric tons of soil and rock and installed over 52,000 pre-cast concrete segments to build 7,433 sturdy rings to support the tunnel walls.
Over the months to come, crews will finish up work on the passageways that connect the tunnels.
The tunnel will eventually connect Scarborough, Midtown, and Mississauga, as well as other local and regional transit.