Here's how downtown Toronto's first subway tunnel in over 60 years will be dug

The area surrounding Exhibition Station looks quite a bit different to CNE attendees this summer as Metrolinx prepares the site to become the new tunnel launch point for the forthcoming

Before tunnelling can begin for the six-kilometre central stretch of the 15-station line, crews must prepare a tunnel launch shaft, now in progress at the east end of Exhibition Station. We're getting ready to dig the first subway tunnel under Toronto's downtown core in over 60 years for the future Ontario Line. But first, we need a launch shaft! Watch to learn more about this exciting work taking place at Exhibition Station.Crews are now drilling deep into the soil around the launch shaft site, being constructed immediately south of Liberty Village, next to the Toronto Police Traffic Services building, between King West Laneway and Hanna Avenue.

Once piling is complete and this massive pit is dug, tunnel boring machines will next be lowered into the void to begin their journey eastward, carving out the first new subway tunnel in the city centre since 1963 — a year that saw JFK assassinated and still six whole years before the first moon landing.

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