Minneapolis METRO Green Line Extension Opens to Eden Prairie

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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 12/06/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better299 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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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Phoenix Light Rail Reaches South Phoenix and Splits Into Two Lines

  Baseline Road and Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85042Valley Metro

  

  Starts 06/07/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years agoThe City of Phoenix^[1] release is headed "South Central-Downtown Hub Light Rail Extension Opens June 7" and gives the opening as "Saturday, June 7, 2025."

  Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

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• Transport09/24/2026@BuildDesk

  Metro's A Line Opens Its Extension to Pomona

  Pomona–North, West Santa Fe Street, Pomona, CA 91767Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

  

  Starts 09/19/2025 7:00PMCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.0 years agoNBC Los Angeles^[1] (published September 19, 2025): "The Metro^[2] A Line extension opens Friday"; Metro's own video adds "Four new stations open this Friday, September 19 ... First ride is at noon!" (12:00 PDT = 19:00Z).

  Nine miles of light rail and four new stations in Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona, bringing trains back to the eastern San Gabriel Valley for the first time since 1951 on a $1.5 billion extension.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  CTA Breaks Ground on the Red Line Extension to 130th Street

  Future Michigan Avenue station, S Michigan Ave at 116th St, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Transit Authority

  

  04/24/2026 - 12/31/2030ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence160 days agoCTA's own release is dated April 24, 2026 and describes the groundbreaking as having happened, with "the new extension and stations [...] expected to be completed and in service in 2030". Completion: CTA Red Line Extension FAQ (read Sep 2026): "the new extension and stations are expected to be completed and in service in 2030"; CTA's construction page puts the contractor's "construction period 2026-2030".^[1]

  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.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Metro's D Line Subway Extension Opens Its First Three Stations

  Wilshire/La Cienega station, Wilshire Blvd at La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

  

  Starts 05/08/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better146 days agoMetro's^[1] own project page says of Section 1, "This Opened on May 8, 2026."

  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.

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Jubilee Line Platforms Open at Westminster Underground

  Westminster Underground Station, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 12/22/1999CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better26.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Jubilee line platforms were opened on 22 December 1999."

  The deep-level Jubilee line platforms at Westminster Underground opened, completing London's £3.5bn Jubilee Line Extension after engineers dug a 39-metre station box beside the Thames without disturbing Big Ben's foundations.

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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

  

  01/01/2027 - 12/31/2033ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins65% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 65%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 92 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. Completion: Austin Transit Partnership FY 2026-27 Approved Budget (Sep 2026) project timeline: "2027-33 ... Construction & Testing", then "2033 ... Open for Service".^[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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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

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

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

  

  Starts 07/20/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.2 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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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Opens to Renforth

  Renforth Drive at Eglinton Avenue West, Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaMetrolinx

  

  Starts 12/31/2031DELAYEDDate confidence: DELAYEDThe date has movedHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all DELAYED pins8 years late40% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 40%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 49% confidence or belowin 5.2 yearsThe article says only that "The extension is expected to open in 2031", a year rather than a fixed day, so the pin sits on the last day of that year.^[1]

  The 9.2-kilometre westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton adds seven stations - four underground, two elevated and one in an open trench - ending at a trenched terminal at Renforth beside the eastern end of the Mississauga Transitway. Construction was estimated in 2026 at CA$3.97 billion, up from CA$2.47 billion a decade earlier.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

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

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

  

  Starts 01/25/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better3.7 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.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Elizabeth Line's Tottenham Court Road Station Opens

  Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line Station, London, UKTransport for London

  

  Starts 05/24/2022CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better4.4 years agoConfirmed against contemporary reporting on the central section's opening. Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Elizabeth line opened on Tuesday 24 May 2022".

  London's £18.9BN Elizabeth Line opens through central London, bringing its new Tottenham Court Road station into service after years of Crossrail tunnelling and delay.

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• Infrastructure09/30/2026@ThePinGang

  Grand Paris Express Line 18 Opens Massy-Palaiseau to Christ de Saclay

  Massy-Palaiseau station, Massy, Essonne, FranceSociete des grands projets

  

  Starts 11/30/2026DELAYEDDate confidence: DELAYEDThe date has movedHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all DELAYED pins9 weeks late68% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 68%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidencein 60 daysThe Societe des grands projets says service "pourra intervenir a compter du 30 novembre" after a two-month dry run; Sortiraparis^[2][4] says the opening was "originally set for 1 October 2026".

  The first stretch of Paris Metro Line 18, the region's first new metro line in thirty years, can start carrying passengers from 30 November 2026, with the opening expected the first week of December. It slipped from 1 October 2026.

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