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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.

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.

The light rail line runs almost 11 kilometres from Finch West station on Line 1 at Keele Street west to Humber College Station, with 18 stops along the way. The TTC runs it day to day, with trains every six and a half minutes at rush hour.

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.

The 14.5-mile Southwest light rail extension of the METRO Green Line will open to riders on June 12, 2027, linking Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Eden Prairie. Metro Transit announced the date on 26 September 2026 while testing, training and construction continue.

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.