Next step towards Evergreen Line completion
Channel: GovernmentofBC
Date: 2014-03-08

Today Premier Christy Clark was joined by the Honourable James Moore, Minister Responsible for British Columbia and Member of Parliament for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, B.C.'s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone, and TransLink board chair Marcella Szel in announcing the start of Evergreen Line tunnel construction and officially naming the tunnel boring machine.

The machine has been named "Alice", after Alice Wilson, Canada's first female geologist. It is tradition in the tunnel boring industry to name machines.

The Evergreen Line two-kilometre tunnel will run east of Barnet Highway in Port Moody to south of Kemsley Avenue in Coquitlam. The machine will drill a single tunnel in one direction, instead of two, allowing for a shorter construction schedule. Bored tunnel construction means there is no disruption to the surface above except at the tunnel entry and exit points.

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