PORT MOODY (NEWS1130) – The provincial government says tunnel boring on the new SkyTrain line has been slower than anticipated.

The Evergreen Line was originally scheduled to open in the summer of 2016, it will now open in the fall of that year.

The province says the contractor is responsible for any increase in cost due to the delay, not the taxpayer.

The Ministry of Transportation says the boring process is more than 30 per cent complete. Overall, the project is more than half finished.