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Blue Line extension: The largest tunnel boring machine ever seen in Quebec has arrived

Blue Line extension: The largest tunnel boring machine ever seen in Quebec has arrived

The Blue Line Project Office is pleased to announce that the tunnel boring machine has arrived at the Port of Montreal, marking a key milestone in the project. Custom-made in Germany for Montreal’s metro extension project, this massive drilling machine, has a cutting wheel measuring 9.7 metres in diameter will be used to dig and encase 4.6 kilometers of tunnel all the way to Anjou.

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