Sydney Western Harbour Tunnel Set to Open

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Western Sydney Airport Opens to Passengers

  Western Sydney International Airport, Greendale, New South Wales, AustraliaWestern Sydney Airport

  

  Starts 10/25/2026SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEin 32 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "Western Sydney to open to passengers on 25 October" 2026.

  Western Sydney International Airport, a AU$5.3BN project decades in the making, opens to passenger flights to relieve an overwhelmed Sydney Airport as the city's population grows toward 7 million.

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Sydney Metro West Opens

  Sydney MetroParramatta, New South Wales

  Starts 12/31/2032DELAYED4 years late63% CONFIDENCEin 6.3 yearsSydney Metro’s^[2] own project overview targets "an opening date of 2032", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.

  A driverless metro doubling rail capacity between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. Estimated date.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sydney Metro City & Southwest Opens Under the Harbour

  Victoria Cross, Lower North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSydney Metro

  

  Starts 08/19/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Sydney Metro^[3] City officially opened on Monday, 19 August 2024."

  Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Western Sydney International Airport Opens

  Badgerys Creek, New South WalesWestern Sydney Airport

  

  Starts 10/25/2026SCHEDULED86% CONFIDENCEin 32 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…July 2026,[6] with passenger operations scheduled to commence on 25 October 2026.[7][8][9] Operated…"

  Sydney's second international gateway at Badgerys Creek begins commercial flights, built with a 24-hour curfew-free runway. Estimated date.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Stad Ship Tunnel Construction Pushed to Early 2027

  Stadlandet, Norway

  

  Starts 01/01/2027DELAYED3 years late64% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "the aim of starting construction in the beginning of 2027."

  Norway's plan to blast the world's first full-scale ship tunnel through the Stad peninsula has cleared its funding hurdles, with construction now set to begin in early 2027.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Stockholm's Förbifart Bypass Tunnel Now Targets 2030

  Förbifart Stockholm, Skärholmen, Stockholm, SwedenTrafikverket

  

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED12 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "As of the end of 2019, the expected completion time is 14 years, year 2030".

  Sweden's roughly $4.5BN Förbifart Stockholm bypass tunnel, originally due in 2018, is now expected to open by 2030 after more than a decade of delays.

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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Auckland City Rail Link Opens

  Auckland, New Zealand

  

  Starts 11/01/2026SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEin 39 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…kland Transport and KiwiRail.[13] It is scheduled to open on 13 September 2026.[14] Initial proposal…"

  Twin 3.45 km tunnels turning Britomart from a dead-end terminus into a through station, doubling rail capacity. Estimated date.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Silvertown Tunnel Opens Under the Thames

  Silvertown, London Borough of Newham, London, United KingdomTransport for London

  

  Starts 04/07/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Silvertown Tunnel will open on 7 April 2025, as confirmed by TfL^[2]."

  Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hong Kong Opens the Sha Tin to Central Link's Cross-Harbour Extension

  Exhibition Centre Station, Wan Chai North, Hong KongMTR Corporation

  

  Starts 05/15/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the cross-harbour section was set to "fully open on May 15," reported days ahead of the 2022 launch.

  Hong Kong's MTR opened the cross-harbour section of the Sha Tin to Central Link, an immersed-tube rail tunnel under Victoria Harbour that gave Hong Kong Island a fourth rail link to Kowloon.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Crown Sydney Opens at Barangaroo

  Crown Sydney, Wulugul Walk, Barangaroo, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCrown Resorts

  

  Starts 12/28/2020CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "select Crown Sydney venues were open to the public for the first time from December 28" 2020.

  Crown Sydney, the AUD $2.2BN, 71-storey tower at Barangaroo designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened its hotel and restaurants after a construction run through the Covid-19 pandemic.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Faroe Islands Open the Sandoy Undersea Tunnel

  Skopun, Sandoy, Faroe Islands

  

  Starts 12/21/2023CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the Sandoyartunnilin tunnel opened on 21st December 2023."

  The Faroe Islands opened the Sandoyartunnilin, an 10.8km subsea tunnel linking Streymoy to the island of Sandoy, replacing a ferry crossing that could take an hour or more.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  New Sydney Fish Market Opens at Blackwattle Bay

  Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSydney Fish Market

  

  Starts 01/19/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE247 days agoInfrastructure NSW^[1] states that "the new Sydney Fish Market officially opened on Monday 19 January 2026".

  The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

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