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TORONTO \u2014 What will inspire you?<\/p>\n
Metrolinx has announced a naming contest for the Ontario Line\u2019s tunnel boring machines (TBMs).<\/p>\n
The new TBMs will dig the southern tunnels for the subway, which will see 15 new stations at completion.<\/p>\n
Community members can submit potential names for the TBMs through an online survey<\/a> that will remain open until Monday, June 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n Participants are encouraged to draw inspiration from local landmarks, history, cultural figures or unique features about the communities these TBMs will travel through. Since the TBMs will be working in a pair, themed and twin-related names are welcome, states the organization.<\/p>\n A shortlist of names will be posted for online voting once the submission period closes. Winners of the naming contest will be credited and can have a photo-op with the mammoth machines at the tunnel launch shaft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Metrolinx reports it broke ground last November <\/a>on the 16-metre-deep shaft that will become the entry point for the TBMs.<\/p>\n The machines will dig a roughly six-kilometre pair of tunnels underground starting just east of Exhibition Station to just west of the Don River.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n