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  London's Docklands Light Railway Opens

  Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 08/31/1987CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE39.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".

  The driverless Docklands Light Railway opens to passengers, giving London's redeveloping docklands a low-cost automated metro built largely on disused rail viaducts.

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  Grand Central Madison Opens After $11BN East Side Access Project

  Grand Central Madison, Park Avenue, New York, NY, USAMetropolitan Transportation Authority

  

  Starts 01/25/2023CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE3.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the station opened as scheduled on that date, with the first train leaving Jamaica at 10:45 am."

  The MTA's East Side Access project opened Grand Central Madison, a new Long Island Rail Road terminal built in caverns roughly 150 feet beneath Park Avenue.

  $11B

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  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.

  $2.8B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Hong Kong Opens the Central Kowloon Bypass Under Kowloon

  Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong KongHighways Department

  

  Starts 12/21/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE276 days agoThe Highways Department's project page states the "Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section) was opened to the public on 21 December 2025".^[1]

  The Central Kowloon Route opens to traffic as the Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section), a 4.7 km dual three-lane trunk road that is about 3.9 km tunnel, running beneath densely built Kowloon from the Yau Ma Tei Interchange in West Kowloon to the Kai Tak Development Area and Kowloon Bay in the east. It forms the western half of Route 6.

  HK$42.4B

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  Paris Métro Opens Its First Line

  Porte Maillot, Paris, FranceRATP

  

  Starts 07/19/1900CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE126.2 years agoRATP's^[3] own history page and EarthSky's^[2] science-history article both give 19 July 1900 as the inauguration date of the first métro line.

  The Paris Métro's first line opened to the public on 19 July 1900, running between Porte Maillot and Château de Vincennes.

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  Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop East Targets 2035 Opening

  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  

  Starts 12/31/2035ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: Stage One "will cost an estimated $33BN and will be finished by 2035," a target that depends on continued state funding for a multi-decade build.

  Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop, a 90km orbital line built to connect Melbourne's suburbs without funnelling every trip through downtown, is aiming to open its first 26km stage in 2035. The state costs its first two stages at AUD $31-58BN; Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office put the build at $125BN.

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  Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side

  Lawrence to Bryn Mawr, Uptown and Edgewater, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Transit Authority

  

  Starts 07/20/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe CTA's announcement says "four fully reconstructed Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown will open on Sunday, July 20, 2025".^[1]

  The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

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  Ontario Line Opens in Toronto

  Toronto, OntarioMetrolinx

  

  Starts 09/01/2031ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEin 4.9 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…, Plenary Americas, and Webuild) with a projected in-service date of 2031.[37] The contract was valu…"

  A 15.6 km automated subway across Toronto with 15 stations, built to relieve the overloaded Line 1. Estimated date.

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  Réunion's Nouvelle Route du Littoral Set for Full Completion

  Nouvelle Route du Littoral, La Grande Chaloupe, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France

  

  Starts 06/30/2030ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCEin 3.8 yearsThe route has already been delayed for years by court rulings, redesigns and rework, so this remains a target rather than a firm date. Given as scheduled, per the source^[1]: "for a complete opening mid-2030."

  The final offshore-viaduct section of Réunion's storm-battered coastal highway replacement, plagued by quarry bans and redesigns, is now due to fully open by mid-2030.

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  Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens

  Detroit, Michigan

  

  Starts 07/27/2026CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCE58 days agoStated as firm, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…ridge tolls. Construction of the bridge was completed in June 2026, inaugurated on July 24, 2026, an…"

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

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  Golden Gate Bridge Opens to Pedestrians

  Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA

  

  Starts 05/27/1937CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE89.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "opened on May 27, 1937".

  San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a mile-long suspension span across a notoriously treacherous strait, opened to the public with a Pedestrian Day that drew roughly 200,000 walkers.

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  LA's New Sixth Street Viaduct Opens as the 'Ribbon of Light'

  6th Street Viaduct, Santa Ana Freeway, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90021, United States

  

  Starts 07/09/2022CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Dramatic new 6th Street Bridge opens, delivering a 'love letter' to Los Angeles," reported the day of the public opening.

  Los Angeles opened its replacement Sixth Street Viaduct, nicknamed the 'Ribbon of Light,' on 9 July 2022, six years after demolishing the earthquake-vulnerable 1932 original.

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