TL;DR
Toronto's next subway line now has a real hole in the ground. A tunnel boring machine named Libby, a giant rotating cutter that digs and lines a tunnel as it goes, punched through the wall of the future King West Station on Nov. 6 after carving about 1.3 kilometers (0.8 mile) under the city, according to a news report from BlogTO. A second machine, Corkie, is due to finish the twin tunnel beside it in December. The Ontario Line is priced at $34 billion and is expected to finish construction in the 2030s, and every kilometer dug is a kilometer of future commute that will run underground instead of through traffic. To see our odds on when riders board the new line, and the timeline of tunnel milestones around the world that leads there, subscribe.
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