Biden Signs the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

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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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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

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

  East Downtown, Houston, TX, USATexas Department of Transportation

  

  Starts 10/28/2024CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the groundbreaking event was held at Pitch 25 in East Downtown Houston near the start of the project's first phase."

  Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

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• Finance05/04/2023@ThePinGang

  China rolls out a further 1 trillion yuan in economic stimulus ($146 billion dollars)

  

  Starts 08/24/2022CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE4.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…ng infrastructure projects. Tight rules were announced alongside the measures that require the proje…"

  Among the allowances, state policy banks were given an additional 300 billion yuan ($44 billion) focused mainly on financing infrastructure projects. Tight rules were announced alongside the measures that require the projects to be profit-making and targeted.

  Local governments were given the green light to use more than 500 billion yuan ($73 billion) of existing special bond quotas and were promised reduced financing costs through interest-rate changes.

  Amid an energy crisis sparked by severe droughts and heat waves, the cabinet said central-government-run electricity firms will be allowed to sell 200 billion yuan ($29 billion) in special debt to ensure adequate energy supply.

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• Economy09/21/2026@EconDesk

  Trump Signs the Stopgap That Funds the Government to December 11

  The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., United StatesThe White House

  

  09/02/2026 - 12/11/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE21 days agoThe White House^[1] statement dates the signing of H.R. 6500 to Wednesday, September 2, 2026. The act is in force from that day and its appropriations run to 11 December 2026, the date named in section 106(3) of the enrolled text.

  H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, was signed on 2 September 2026, four weeks before the fiscal year ran out. Its appropriations run from 1 October to 11 December 2026, pushing the next shutdown fight past the midterm elections.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Egypt Signs $4.5BN Contract for Its First High-Speed Rail Line

  Ain Sokhna, Suez, EgyptSiemens Mobility

  

  Starts 09/01/2021CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE5.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Siemens-led consortium was awarded a $4.5 billion contract to build the lines from Ain Sokhna to Marsa Matruh and to Alexandria in September 2021".

  A Siemens-led consortium signed a $4.5 billion contract to build Egypt's first electrified high-speed rail line, aiming to replace one of the world's deadliest rail networks.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Biden Starts the Largest Drawdown in the Reserve's History

  US Department of EnergyJames Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20585, United States

  Starts 03/01/2022CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE4.6 years agoDOE's press release is dated 1 March 2022, the day the President authorised the release; the notice of sale followed on 2 March.^[1]

  Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden ordered crude out of the SPR as the US share of an IEA release of 60 million barrels. It did not stop there: by that summer 180 million barrels had gone, the biggest emergency sale the reserve had ever made, and it left the stockpile at levels not seen since the 1980s.

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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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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Ford Signs the Law That Creates the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  The White HouseWhite House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500, United States

  Starts 12/22/1975CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE50.8 years agoThe American Presidency Project dates Ford's signing statement to 22 December 1975, and the Act itself is P.L. 94-163, enacted that day.^[1]

  Two years after the Arab oil embargo, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act set up a federal emergency oil stockpile and gave the President the power to order it sold when supply is severely interrupted. Ford called the bill imperfect but signed it anyway, to end "the long debate over national energy policy".

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  O'Hare's Satellite Concourse 1 Is Finished

  Satellite Concourse 1, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Department of Aviation

  

  Starts 10/01/2028DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 2.0 yearsSatellite Concourse 1 "began vertical construction in April 2026 with a targeted completion date of late 2028" - a season rather than a day, and one that has already moved.^[1]

  The first of two satellite concourses west of O'Hare's terminal core, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Norviska and designated Concourse D, is reached by an underground tunnel from the terminals. Vertical construction started in April 2026; the $1.45 billion concourse is the first piece of the O'Hare 21 rebuild to be delivered, a programme approved in 2018 at $8.5 billion and now put at roughly $12 billion in current dollars.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Golden Gate Bridge District Approves Final $1BN Seismic Retrofit Phase

  Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA, USAGolden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

  

  Starts 10/24/2025CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE334 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "voted Friday to authorize about $1.01 billion in allocations toward the project."

  The district that runs the Golden Gate Bridge signed off on roughly $1 billion in funding for the final stage of a decades-long project to keep the span standing through a major earthquake.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Sound Transit's 1 Line Opens to Federal Way

  Federal Way Downtown station, Federal Way, WA 98003Sound Transit

  

  Starts 12/06/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE291 days agoSound Transit's^[1] opening-day release, dated 6 December 2025, says riders can board the extension "starting today".

  The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hoover Dam Dedicated by President Roosevelt

  Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona border, USAUnited States Bureau of Reclamation

  

  Starts 09/30/1935CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE91.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates dam September 30th."

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, then the largest concrete structure ever built.

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