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Toronto: Scarborough subway starts 'major' work in June, tunnelling next year, province says
The Scarborough subway extension will start “major construction” in June after receiving federal money and choosing a company to bore its tunnel, the province says.
The announcement came almost eight years after Toronto City Council dropped a previously planned light-rail line to extend the Bloor-Danforth subway to Sheppard Avenue.
“Next stop: groundbreaking,” Scarborough-Agincourt MPP Aris Babikian said in a video released May 26.
Strabag, the company awarded a $757.1 million-contract by Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx to design and dig the tunnel, won’t start “major tunnel boring” until Spring 2022. .........(more)
https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10402698-scarborough-subway-starts-major-work-in-june-tunnelling-next-year-province-says/?