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The last 10.99 km stretch, from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, opened to passengers and completed the 33.5 km Aqua Line, Mumbai's first fully underground metro with 27 stations. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation's managing director put the line's completion cost at about 30,000 crore rupees.

Six stations opened along a 5.2 km stretch between João Paulo I and Perdizes, among them Água Branca, which at 47.8 metres is the deepest metro station in South America. Trains run on weekdays from 10.00 to 15.00 and are free for now; the finished line is to run 15.3 km with 15 stations from Brasilândia to São Joaquim.

Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.

The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.

Line 19 will run 46.2 km with 34 stations from Baoshan Railway Station to Hongjian Road through six districts, built to ease traffic on Pudong South Road and crowding on the southern end of line 8 and the northern ends of lines 1 and 3. The northern section from Baoshan Railway Station to Yierba Jinian Road comes first; the southern section follows in 2029 and the middle section in 2031.

The first stage of Singapore's fully elevated, driverless Jurong Region Line opens, serving Tengah and the western estates around Choa Chu Kang. LTA pushed the opening back by about six months after viaduct construction over the Pan-Island Expressway could only be carried out during overnight road closures, and will run interim shuttle buses from end-2027 until the line opens.

The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.

Phase 1 of Line 28 runs 8.877 km with nine stations beneath Chaoyang's Central Business District, from Dongdaqiao to Guangqudonglu by way of Guanghualu, Dawang Lu and Beijing East railway station. Construction started in July 2021.