TxDOT Breaks Ground on $13BN I-45 Houston Overhaul

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  TxDOT Breaks Ground on the I-35 Capital Express Central Rebuild

  Interstate 35 at Cesar Chavez Street, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesTexas Department of Transportation

  

  Starts 10/31/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoTxDOT's^[1] own newsroom item, dated Oct. 31, 2024, announces that it "breaks ground on transformational I-35 Capital Express Central project".

  TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

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• Marine09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes

  Houston Ship Channel, Galveston Bay reach near Morgans Point, TexasPort Houston

  

  Starts 12/31/2029ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]

  Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  MTA's $68.4BN 2025-2029 Capital Plan Gets Final Approval

  2 Broadway, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAMetropolitan Transportation Authority

  

  Starts 06/18/2025CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the MTA's^[3] 2025-2029 Capital Plan has been approved so quickly by the CPRB".

  New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  The Park at Penn's Landing Opens Over a Capped I-95

  Park at Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard at Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

  

  Starts 01/01/2030ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsThe park's own site gives a pair of years rather than a day: the "11.5-acre civic park under construction along Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront" is "Set to open in 2029/2030".^[1]

  An 11.5-acre civic park on a deck over Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard, stitching Old City back to the Delaware River waterfront. PennDOT is building the $329 million cap underneath and the waterfront corporation the park on top of it.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Arizona Finishes the I-10 Broadway Curve Rebuild

  Interstate 10 at Broadway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85040Arizona Department of Transportation

  

  Starts 05/31/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoADOT's completion announcement gives the finish as May 31, 2025, saying construction "began in summer 2021" and is now complete.^[1]

  ADOT wrapped up its largest urban freeway reconstruction, widening 11 miles of Interstate 10 from just south of Ray Road to Interstate 17 near Sky Harbor with extra travel and HOV lanes, collector-distributor roads, a rebuilt SR 143 interchange and new bridges at 48th Street and Broadway Road. Construction had run since summer 2021 and cost more than $800 million.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  The Portal Brings Caltrain Into the Salesforce Transit Center

  425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105Transbay Joint Powers Authority

  

  Starts 12/31/2035DELAYED9 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsTJPA's^[1] project page gives an "anticipated revenue service date of 2035, funding dependent", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.

  The Portal takes Caltrain, and later California High-Speed Rail, underground from Fourth and King into the train box already built beneath the Salesforce Transit Center, with a new underground station at Fourth and Townsend. TJPA's July 2025 indicative estimate put the capital cost at about $7.57 billion, of which the federal government has pledged $3.38 billion.

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• Policy05/01/2023@ThePinGang

  California regulators on Friday voted to ban the sale of new diesel big rigs by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042

  California Air Resources Board

  

  Starts 01/01/2042ESTIMATED77% CONFIDENCEin 15.3 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…p class="paragraph"> The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health ben…"

  The new mandate is estimated to deliver $26.5 billion in public health benefits in California in avoided health impacts and deaths due to diesel pollution.

  The mandate would require companies that operate 50 or more trucks to convert their fleets into electric or hydrogen models and achieve zero-emissions by 2042.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sound Transit Delays West Seattle Link Extension to 2035

  West Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USASound Transit

  

  Starts 12/31/2035DELAYED3 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: Sound Transit "pushed back the opening of its West Seattle Link Extension from 2032 to 2035."

  Sound Transit pushed back the opening of the West Seattle Link light rail extension, one flagship piece of its $54BN Sound Transit 3 build-out.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Austin Light Rail Breaks Ground on Its First Line

  Guadalupe Street at Republic Square, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesAustin Transit Partnership

  

  Starts 01/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysATP chief executive Greg Canally says in the agency's own announcement that "we are on track to begin construction in 2027", a year with no day attached.^[1]

  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.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  BQE Rebuild Pushed Back to a 2030 Start

  Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, USA

  

  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED70% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsStreetsblog's^[3] report of 24 August 2026 on the new mayoral plan - 'Construction will start in 2030, wrap up in 2040', a 10-year $4 billion rebuild - is newer than the NYC^[2] DOT project page's 2029 start, which is where the pin's earlier date came from. No day is given, so it is dated to the last day of 2030.

  New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.

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• Law09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Biden Signs the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

  The White House, Washington, DC

  

  11/15/2021 - 09/30/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Biden signed the bill into law at a signing ceremony on November 15." Its authorisations ran FY2022-FY2026 and expired on 30 September 2026, per CRS R47573.

  President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law, directing $1.2 trillion toward roads, bridges, rail, water systems and broadband nationwide.

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  B&W Starts Work on $130 Million Air Quality Project at a US Coal Plant

  Babcock & Wilcox·…1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United States

  Starts 09/10/2026 10:30AMCONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE13 days agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – September 10, 2026)": "announced today that it has received a limited notice to proceed (LNTP)"; StockTitan's copy of the Business Wire release is stamped 06:30 AM ET and MT Newswires reported it at 07:04 AM EDT.^[1]

  Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on an approximately $130 million air quality control project for an unnamed US coal-fired power plant, starting engineering and long-lead purchasing, with its construction arm expected to install it. The plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

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