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Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Amtrak and its newly chosen builders showed the public a first look at the redesigned Penn Station concourse, the latest step in a federal takeover of the long-delayed rebuild.

The MTA started the major construction stage of the 1.5-mile extension that carries the Q from 96th Street to Harlem-125th Street, with new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets. A tunnel boring machine goes underground in early 2027 and trains are due in 2032.

An IndiGo flight from Lucknow landed on the first day of scheduled service at the National Capital Region's second airport, whose first phase has one 3,900 m runway and a 101,590 sq m terminal for 12 million passengers a year, designed by Grimshaw with Nordic, Haptic and STUP. Zurich Airport International holds the 40-year concession, and the DGCA granted the aerodrome licence on 6 March 2026.

Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.

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.

A 853-metre cable-stayed span over the Detroit River, the longest in North America, carrying the busiest US-Canada trade corridor. Estimated date.

The first TM-B Launch Edition e-bikes reached US riders in the week of 3 August 2026, about six weeks later than the spring ALSO promised at the bike's unveiling. The Rivian spinout's Class 3 debut runs to 100 miles on a charge and swaps its Top Frame from cargo to passenger duty in under three seconds.

Chembur station opened on the Line 2B branch of the Yellow Line, taking the operational section to six stations after the first 5.8 km from Diamond Garden to Mandale started carrying passengers in April 2026. The station sits roughly 200 metres from Chembur suburban railway station and about 100 metres from the monorail, making it a three-mode interchange; Line 2B as a whole is estimated to cost 10,986 crore rupees.

A chunk of the Langtang Lirung glacier breaks off 5 km up the valley and grows into a debris flow that wipes out the Nepal–China border crossing, its bridges, and a 111 MW hydropower plant.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Denver on 1 September 2026, with a roughly 60-square-mile service area served only by its Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Tampa on 1 September 2026, across nearly 50 square miles from Westshore to East Tampa and Hyde Park to Temple Crest.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in San Diego on 1 September 2026, across about 50 square miles from Logan Heights to Pacific Beach.

Uber cut about 10% of its staff, roughly 3,300 jobs, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi removed management layers, merged teams and pulled remote workers back into offices.

Tesla put its two-seat Cybercab, which has no steering wheel or pedals, into robotaxi service in Austin after an invitation-only launch at ACL Live on 3 September 2026, opening rides to the public the next evening.

21 Air Flight 7598, a 32-year-old Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Air from San Juan, overran runway 30 on landing at Miami International Airport and struck a van of airline cleaning workers and an SUV; five people on the ground died.

A week after 21 Air Flight 7598 overran a Miami runway and killed five people, Amazon said it had paused its operations with the North Carolina cargo carrier, which had flown Amazon Air packages since 2024.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Las Vegas on 14 September 2026, running Ojai robotaxis over a nearly 24-square-mile zone along the Strip.

Harry Reid International, Signature Aviation and U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a dedicated general aviation and cargo clearance building on the west side of the airfield. It takes international private-jet arrivals out of the passenger terminals, which the airport says cuts congestion as Las Vegas draws more international traffic for its sporting events.

Waymo announced with Singapore's Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority that it will bring its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to Singapore, aiming to open to riders in 2028.

The new North Concourse at George Bush Intercontinental replaces the 1969-era flight stations with about 765,000 square feet on three levels, 22 gates for United and a 54,000-square-foot United Club, the largest in the airline's network. It is the centrepiece of the $2.5 billion Terminal B Transformation, which closed the old Terminal B lobby in January 2025.

Tesla holds an invite-only Semi Rollout on 24 September 2026 to inaugurate its 1.7 million sq ft Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, built for up to 50,000 electric trucks a year, with factory tours and Semi ride-alongs.

Routes 15 and 15L move into new center-running bus-only lanes on East Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard, with passengers boarding at new island stations sheltered by steel arches. It is the first stretch of RTD's 8.5-mile bus rapid transit corridor from downtown Denver to I-225 in Aurora to carry buses, with full BRT service planned for late 2027 or early 2028.

The first stretch of Europe's largest transport project: a 33 km automated orbital metro ring around Paris. Estimated date.

The rephased Inglewood Transit Connector begins with three mobility hubs holding more than 1,000 parking stalls, event-day bus lanes, a rebuilt Market Street and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue to the Metro K Line station, all due by 2028. The automated people mover it grew out of is deferred, with the right-of-way preserved at Market and Manchester.

LAX’s $3.34BN Automated People Mover - the driverless train meant to finally connect the airport’s terminals to LA’s Metro system - has slipped years past its original target and still has no confirmed opening date.

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

The first phase of JFK's $9.5BN New Terminal One, originally due in June 2026, will not open before November 2026 at the earliest.

India's longest expressway at 1,386 km cuts the Delhi to Mumbai drive to roughly 12 hours. Estimated date.

The first large public piece of Amtrak's phased rebuild of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station: a restored concourse of shops and restaurants beneath the 1933 building, part of a redevelopment of nearly 500,000 square feet running to 2028.

Germany's long-delayed underground through-station replaces the Stuttgart terminus after two decades of construction. Estimated date.

Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

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.

CEDD's 3.4 km dual two-lane Trunk Road T2, of which about 3.1 km is tunnel, links the Central Kowloon Bypass at Kai Tak to the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel, commissioning Route 6 in full as an east-west express link between West Kowloon and Tseung Kwan O. The main construction contract alone is worth HK$10.918 billion.

A 3.5 km fully underground northern extension carries the Daxing airport line one stop on from Caoqiao to Lize Shangwuqu in Fengtai District, bringing the airport service closer to central Beijing. Work on the extension started in 2020.

A new four-kilometre rail crossing over the Strait of Johor aims to cut the commute between Johor Bahru and Singapore from up to four hours to about six minutes.

Austin Transit Partnership starts building a 9.8-mile line with 15 stations, running three ways out of downtown and crossing Lady Bird Lake on a new bridge. The board picked the Stacy Witbeck-Sundt joint venture Austin Rail Constructors in February 2026; the first trains are due in 2033 and the cost is put above $8.2 billion.

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.

The third stage of the Mexico-Pachuca "Felipe Angeles" train runs 65 km of electrified double track from the AIFA airport terminal in the State of Mexico to Pachuca in Hidalgo, with stations at AIFA, Xaltocan II, Tizayuca-Temascalapa, Jaguey de Tellez and Pachuca plus four intermediate stops, and is meant to carry over 100,000 passengers a day in 1 hour 15 minutes end to end. The Felipe Angeles Engineers Corps of the defence ministry began construction in March 2025 and reported 37.06 per cent overall progress in June 2026.

The 4.5 km four-lane elevated road ties the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link at Sewri to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the Coastal Road at Worli, crossing the Central and Western Railway lines near Prabhadevi on a double-decker structure whose lower deck replaces the 112-year-old Elphinstone road over bridge, closed to traffic in September 2025.

Four trains an hour will run through to Mantes-la-Jolie over the 47 km of rebuilt track west of Nanterre-La Folie, where Eole's first new section opened in May 2024. The full six-trains-an-hour service is not due until the end of 2029 because of trouble installing the line's new digital signalling and switching system.

The 32 km non-stop link will run every 15 minutes from 5am to midnight between Gare de l'Est and Charles de Gaulle Airport, a 20-minute trip, operated by Hello Paris, a Keolis and RATP Dev joint venture. The infrastructure company, owned in equal shares by Groupe ADP, SNCF Reseau and Banque des Territoires, says it financed the entire project without public subsidies, and CAF France of Alsace supplied the trainsets.