MTA'S TUNNEL OF TURMOIL; BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer With a deep rumble and a cracking of earth, a massive boring machine boring machine Machine tool for producing smooth and accurate holes in a workpiece by enlarging existing holes with a cutting tool, which may bear a single tip of steel, cemented carbide, or diamond or may be a small grinding wheel. Wednesday morning ate through the last foot of dirt beneath the streets of Hollywood, finishing what might be the last Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. subway tunneling project. ``I didn't know how I'd feel when this happened, but it's a lot of relief,'' said Superintendent Cal Negley, on finishing tunneling between Hollywood and North Hollywood. ``This has been the most difficult job.'' Subway workers - who faced the death of a colleague, hellish work conditions, widely varying rock types and virtual seas of underground water the past 18 months - cheered as the 20-foot-wide steel face of the boring machine methodically made a hole in the last slender wall of dirt at 11:10 a.m. The boring stopped for a brief period and shift supervisor Tony Traylor crawled up to the machine's face and stuck his head through to wave to workers and reporters assembled on the other side. It was two hours later when the machine was fully through the hole and workers finally walked inside the finished 17.5-mile tunnel, leading in one direction to downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and in the other to North Hollywood. Metropolitan Transportation Authority and construction officials celebrated one of the agency's few good days in a rocky year. ``I've been waiting 18 months for this, so it's pretty exciting,'' said the project's resident engineer, John Townsend John Townsend may refer to one of the following people:
But it was a bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. celebration after the death of mechanic Brian Bailey  This article or section resembles a .Please help [ improve this article] by removing excessive trivia, irrelevant praise and criticism, lists and collections of links that are of . last month, the deaths of workers for two other tunneling contractors in the past year, and the MTA's financial and other problems. Several rail projects are on hold while interim Chief Executive Officer Julian Burke determines what more the agency can afford to build, if anything. ``It may be the last tunnel in Los Angeles, but my hope is it won't be the last project,'' said former MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. board member Mel Wilson of Northridge. The 35-ton boring machine, nicknamed Thelma by builders, will be dismantled and brought out of the tunnel over the next several days, Townsend said. Thelma's partner, dubbed Louise, will finish the second tunnel in about two weeks. The line from North Hollywood is scheduled to open in May 2000. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) From inside a 17.5-mile tunnel, an MTA miner smiles in Hollywood after scooping the final foot of the subway line excavation. (2) Workers watch a massive boring machine break its way through the end of a new subway tunnel in Hollywood. (3) James Lamb, left, gets a pat on the shoulder from co-worker Ted Serna as historic digging of an L.A. subway ends. David Sprague/Daily News |
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