{"id":2879,"date":"2019-04-15T02:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:52:40","slug":"tunneling-under-the-radar-cheap-tunnel-boring-machines-solve-nimby-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Tunneling Under the Radar &#8211; Cheap Tunnel Boring Machines solve NIMBY problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To bypass Toronto East.Bomanville &lt;-&gt;W.Ingersol.401.and.119\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earth is 40k kms circumference (40,075km at https:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?t=crmtb01&amp;f=ob&amp;i=circumference+of+the+earth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>206km by 401 only.&nbsp; 220km by 401 &amp; 407.&nbsp; (Google Maps:&nbsp;https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/wLZgc8kAL4k)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct over the surface of the earth (along the circuference, not the chord): 194km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what is the depth under &#8220;Toronto&#8221;?&nbsp; Is deep enough to not even have to ask for persmission.&nbsp; (100m?&nbsp; 200m?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-830x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-1245x1536.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-1660x2048.jpg 1660w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-1226x1512.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/oshawa-to-milton-tunnel-depth-2025-02-10-15-00-02.png-675x833.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To bypass Toronto East.Bomanville &lt;-&gt;W.Ingersol.401.and.119\/19 Earth is 40k kms circumference (40,075km at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[97,126,231],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-elon-musk","tag-my-work","tag-tunnels","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39046,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/39046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}