Sheppard subway construction (several occasions 1999): A few final explorations and photo shoots had to be done under Sheppard Avenue this month to allow me to finish Infiltration 13. The highlight of the entire Sheppard Subway line experience occurred at about 2a.m. one Friday night when Scumbone and I managed to sneak past some workers into the tube tunnels at Leslie and hike all the way to the end of the line, eventually popping up in the middle of Sheppard Avenue a few paces to the east of Yonge Street.
         Towards the end of the month, I took a tourist from Ottawa down into the series of gigantic cement chambers that will eventually blosson into Leslie station. The station is now all but connected to both the tube tunnels leading towards Yonge Street and the cut and cover tunnels leading towards Don Mills Avenue. Still no sign of any security whatsoever!

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