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Rail Baltica Main Line Complete
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEin 4.2 yearsGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…Riga) to the Lithuania-Poland border is scheduled for 2030, with completion of the double track rail…"A European-gauge high-speed line finally connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the rest of the EU rail network. Estimated date.€23.8B0.78Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Opens
Rødbyhavn, Denmark
ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCEin 2.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…enhagen rail travel to about 2.5 hours. Estimated date.…"An 18 km immersed tunnel under the Baltic links Denmark and Germany, cutting Hamburg to Copenhagen rail travel to about 2.5 hours. Estimated date.kr 52.6B0.65Melbourne Airport Rail Link
Melbourne Airport, Victoria, Australia
DELAYED4 years late67% CONFIDENCEin 7.3 yearsDate has moved, per the source[1]: originally due by 2029, "that deadline is now looking a lot more like 2033"; Victoria’s own project page confirms the later date.A AU$12BN rail line to finally connect Melbourne Airport to the city, alongside a AU$4.5BN airport overhaul that adds a third runway and expands the international terminal.A$12B0.62Indonesia Opens the Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar Toll Road, Trans Sumatera's First Major Stretch
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: President Joko Widodo inaugurated the toll road at the Natar toll gate, with the remaining sections becoming operational on March 8, 2019.Indonesia opened the 140.9km Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar toll road in Lampung, the flagship first section of the Trans Sumatera Toll Road network built by state contractor Hutama Karya.0.60Germany Launches Its Biggest Rail Overhaul in Decades
ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target, per the source[1]: DB plans "to tackle at least two additional corridors per year until 2030," completing the programme's full rollout by then.Germany announced a multi-billion-euro Generalsanierung programme to fully close and rebuild more than 40 of its busiest rail corridors, aiming to fix decades of underfunded, overloaded infrastructure by 2030.0.60India Targets 2027 Launch for First Bullet Train Segment
DELAYED3.5 years late63% CONFIDENCEin 326 daysIndia's bullet train was originally due in 2022; the railways minister now targets 15 August 2027 for the first Surat-Bilimora segment, with the full Mumbai-Ahmedabad line not expected until 2029.[1]India's first high-speed rail line, modelled on Japan's Shinkansen, is now targeted to open its first short segment in 2027, years later than originally planned.0.60SBB Opens the Löwenstrasse Underground Station at Zürich Hauptbahnhof
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE12.3 years agoPer Wikipedia's[2] Weinberg Tunnel article: "the route was changed to its current state" with the tunnel's opening and a simultaneous timetable change on 15 June 2014, after public platforms opened a day earlier.Swiss Federal Railways brought the new four-track Löwenstrasse station into service 16 metres beneath Zürich's main station, the first stage of the Durchmesserlinie cross-city link.0.60Austin Light Rail Breaks Ground on Its First Line
Guadalupe Street at Republic Square, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesAustin Transit Partnership
ESTIMATED50% 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.0.60Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link Set to Open
Woodlands North, North Region, Singapore
SCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysThe day is an announced one, not a year-end placeholder: Putrajaya has held to a 1 January 2027 start since Transport Minister Anthony Loke said it was "confident RTS Link will start on January 1, 2027", and English Wikipedia still carries "Planned opening: 1 January 2027". The latest check-in keeps it there - AsiaOne[2], 4 April 2026: the RTS Link "is on track for opening in January 2027 despite the ongoing global energy crisis" - after an earlier Singapore target of passenger service by December 2026.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.$3B0.59Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop East Targets 2035 Opening
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
ESTIMATED69% 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.0.59Mumbai's Sewri-Worli Elevated Connector Opens to Traffic
DELAYED5 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 158 daysThe report says "The project is now expected to be completed in January or February 2027", a span recorded here at its last day.[1]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 2025.0.59Hamburg Port Authority Opens the Rethebrücke as Europe's Largest Rail Bascule Bridge
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHamburg Port Authority's[3] press release states the Rethebrücke, Europe's largest rail bascule bridge, went into operation on 15 December 2017.Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.0.59
