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TxDOT Breaks Ground on the I-35 Capital Express Central Rebuild
Interstate 35 at Cesar Chavez Street, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesTexas Department of Transportation
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.9 years agoTxDOT's[1] own newsroom item, dated Oct. 31, 2024, announces that it "breaks ground on transformational I-35 Capital Express Central project".TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.$5.6B0.65Phoenix Light Rail Reaches South Phoenix and Splits Into Two Lines
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.3 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.$1.3B0.64Réunion's Nouvelle Route du Littoral Set for Full Completion
Nouvelle Route du Littoral, La Grande Chaloupe, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France
ESTIMATED67% CONFIDENCEin 3.8 yearsThe route has already been delayed for years by court rulings, redesigns and rework, so this remains a target rather than a firm date. Given as scheduled, per the source[1]: "for a complete opening mid-2030."The final offshore-viaduct section of Réunion's storm-battered coastal highway replacement, plagued by quarry bans and redesigns, is now due to fully open by mid-2030.0.61Construction Starts on the Port Authority Bus Terminal Replacement
Port Authority Bus Terminal, 625 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Work began on May 29, 2025, when a groundbreaking ceremony for a temporary terminal on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th streets was hosted."A groundbreaking on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets began the temporary terminal that keeps 8,000 buses a day running while the 1950 building is replaced. The $10 billion scheme was planned to finish in 2032, with new ramps by 2028.0.61Hartsfield-Jackson's Widened Concourse D Is Due to Be Finished
Concourse D, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA 30320Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.8 yearsThe airport's phase-two announcement has "19 modules planned in total by the project's completion in the summer of 2029" - a season, not a fixed day.[1]Atlanta is rebuilding Concourse D in place, floating 19 prefabricated steel modules into position overnight to make the 1980s concourse about 60 percent wider and able to take larger aircraft while it keeps operating. Phase two began in January 2025 with the sixth module.0.60Otis Completes Decade-Long Empire State Building Elevator Overhaul
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE6.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Otis Completes Elevator Modernization for Empire State Building, Delivers Custom Glass Mast Car" (press release dated October 14, 2019).Otis finished a roughly decade-long modernisation of all 68 elevators in New York's Empire State Building, capped by a custom glass car serving the 102nd-floor observatory.0.60Ford Starts the First Moving Assembly Line for a Complete Automobile
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE112.8 years agoConfirmed per History.com[3]'s "Ford's[2] assembly line starts rolling" entry, which dates the first complete-automobile moving assembly line to December 1, 1913 at Ford's Highland Park plant.On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Company extended its moving line at the Highland Park plant to assemble a complete Model T chassis start to finish, cutting build time from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes.0.60Brightline West Breaks Ground on US High-Speed Rail
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Brightline West[3] officially broke ground on April 22, 2024, on the nation's first true high-speed rail system."Brightline West broke ground on a 218-mile electric high-speed line between Las Vegas and Southern California, aiming to become America's first true bullet train.$12B0.60Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side
CONFIRMED90% 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.0.60Amtrak Unveils New Design for the Penn Station Overhaul
CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE107 days agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "unveiled the design renderings for the once-in-a-generation redevelopment of New York Penn Station."Amtrak and its newly chosen builders showed the public a first look at the redesigned Penn Station concourse, the latest step in a federal takeover of the long-delayed rebuild.0.59TSMC's Second Arizona Fab Starts Mass Production
ESTIMATED72% CONFIDENCEin 281 daysTSMC[2] said it had "pushed up the mass production schedule for its second wafer fab in the U.S. state of Arizona to the second half of 2027 from the previously planned 2028," naming a half-year rather than a day.The second fab on TSMC's north Phoenix campus, whose structure was finished in 2025, is due to begin high-volume manufacturing in the second half of 2027 - a year earlier than the schedule the company had previously given. Chairman C.C. Wei gave the pulled-forward date on 15 January 2026; the campus is the centrepiece of a $165 billion Arizona investment.0.59BQE Rebuild Pushed Back to a 2030 Start
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, USA
DELAYED70% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsStreetsblog's[3] report of 24 August 2026 on the new mayoral plan - 'Construction will start in 2030, wrap up in 2040', a 10-year $4 billion rebuild - is newer than the NYC[2] DOT project page's 2029 start, which is where the pin's earlier date came from. No day is given, so it is dated to the last day of 2030.New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.0.59
