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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With the massive tunnel boring machine in place, Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau says it is imperative to extend the REM to Dorval train station.
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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