Completion of the Broadway Subway project in Vancouver has been delayed from late 2025 into early 2026.

A five-week strike in June 2022 affected the concrete supply in the Lower Mainland, which affected the start of tunnel boring. A precise update on the project timeline will be provided in the spring of 2023 by the provincial government when station excavation and tunnel boring are further advanced. The project remains within budget.

The first machine launched Oct. 7, 2022, and has made significant progress toward its first breakthrough at Mount Pleasant Station, while the second machine is now fully assembled and set to launch, marking another milestone.

Named Elsie and Phyllis, after two influential British Columbians, the custom-designed tunnel-boring machines measure about six metres in diameter, 150 metres in length and weigh almost one million kilograms each. Named for Elizabeth (Elsie) MacGill and Phyllis Munday, the machines were manufactured in Germany, shipped to Canada in spring 2022, and assembled on concrete slabs at the launch site near Great Northern Way.

Progress continues to be made on tunnelling work; more than half of the columns for the guideway between VCC-Clark and Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station are complete. Construction and fit out of the stations and tracks will begin once tunnel boring has finished.

The 5.7 km Broadway Subway extension of the Millennium Line will connect VCC-Clark Station, near Clark Street and Great Northern Way, to the future Broadway and Arbutus Station.