Bond Street's Elizabeth Line Station Finally Opens

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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 05/24/2022CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.3 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.

  £18.9B

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Great Portland Estates Completes 18 Hanover Square

  18 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, UKGreat Portland Estates

  

  Starts 12/31/2020ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE5.7 years agoEstimated: the 17 September 2020 practical completion Buildington^[3] records is for the neighbouring Grade II* listed 20 Hanover Square, not 18 Hanover Square. GPE's^[2] release of 12 May 2021 says the final office letting came 'less than six months after practical completion', putting 18 Hanover Square's completion after mid-November 2020, so the pin takes the end of that quarter. No source gives the day.

  Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Network Rail Completes the London Bridge Station Redevelopment

  London Bridge Station, London SE1 9SP, UKNetwork Rail

  

  Starts 05/09/2018CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE8.4 years agoNetwork Rail's^[3] own history page states London Bridge station was officially reopened by the Duke of Cambridge on Wednesday 9 May 2018.

  Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.

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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 07/20/2025CONFIRMED90% 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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• 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 05/08/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE138 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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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  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.

  £77M

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• Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  Jubilee Line Platforms Open at Westminster Underground

  Westminster Underground Station, London, United Kingdom

  

  Starts 12/22/1999CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE26.8 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.

  £3.5B

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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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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Sydney Metro West Opens

  Sydney MetroParramatta, New South Wales

  Starts 12/31/2032DELAYED4 years late63% CONFIDENCEin 6.3 yearsSydney Metro’s^[2] own project overview targets "an opening date of 2032", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.

  A driverless metro doubling rail capacity between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. Estimated date.

  A$27B

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  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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• Transport09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Opens

  East Harlem, New York

  Starts 12/01/2032ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 6.2 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…tury after the line was first proposed. Estimated date.…"

  The Q train extends north to 125th Street in East Harlem, a century after the line was first proposed. Estimated date.

  $17B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Sungei Bedok Opens, Joining the Thomson-East Coast and Downtown Lines

  Sungei Bedok, SingaporeLand Transport Authority

  

  Starts 12/31/2026DELAYED2 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe article says the station "is now expected to commence passenger service in 2026", with LTA narrowing that to the second half of the year, so the day here stands for that window.^[1]

  Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

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