Toronto spending $9M to rescue micro-tunneling boring machine stuck underground

The City of Toronto has issued an emergency contract to a construction company to retrieve a boring machine that’s been stuck underground in the west end for nine months after it became tangled in steel wires.

Since June of last year, the tunneling machine has been stuck underneath Old Mill Drive, near Bloor Street West, where its presence has caused a number of problems for surrounding infrastructure over the past few months. The sewer is meant to divert rainfall away from homes in the area and decrease the risk of basement and home flooding.

But less then a month later, the machine’s front cutting end became ensnared in steel ‘tiebacks’ – buried wires previously used to brace shoring from two mid-rise development excavations in the area.

I guess it is not Made in China if it didn't mention China.

9 MILLION !!!

Shouldn’t this be at the cost if the contractor? Why should taxpayers be held accountable for this?

In London it took 10 years to get ours out.

Why do tax payers dollars go towards someone fuck up?

same company yeg used

Nice cover story.. basically if our taxes money being wasted or missing it’s because of incidents like this..

Wondering how much would be the price for a brand new machine? I bet it’s much much cheaper than 9M

9 Million! 😳 Such waste of tax payer money!

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