Alice, the Réseau express métropolitain‘s #TheRobbinsCompany-supplied giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) is ready to bore a 3.5-kilometre underground passage from the Technoparc to the REM station beneath Montreal-Trudeau International Airport.

The REM named the machine after Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881-1964), a scientist and the first female geologist with Geological Survey of Canada.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/alice-the-tunnel-boring-machine-will-soon-be-heading-to-dorval
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