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Mexico City Metro Line 1 Fully Reopens After Its Rebuild
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DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCE233 days agoThe article states that "On 2 February 2026, the third section from Santa Fe to Observatorio was inaugurated", a fixed day now past.[1]The last section of the 57.7-kilometre Mexico-Toluca commuter railway, from Santa Fe into the rebuilt Observatorio terminal, was inaugurated, finishing a line that had been opening in stages from Zinacantepec since 2023. Its estimated cost climbed from $38.6 billion MXN in 2014 to $73.72 billion MXN by 2019.0.69São Paulo's Line 17-Gold Monorail Opens to Congonhas Airport
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DELAYED14 months late40% CONFIDENCE213 days agoThe article's timeline reads "February 2026: Entire stretch of the RRTS from Sarai Kale Khan to Modipuram becomes operational on 22 February 2026."[1]The 82.15 km semi-high-speed corridor from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut, with 16 stations, two depots and Alstom trainsets running at 160 km/h, became fully operational, covering the distance in under an hour. Deutsche Bahn's Indian subsidiary runs it for the National Capital Region Transport Corporation.₹302.7B0.66Delhi Metro's Golden Line Opens Its First Section, Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar
DELAYED2 years late61% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysConstruction World[2], 16 September 2026, narrows the year to a month: DMRC is "targeting December 2026 for the opening of the first operational section of the Golden Line between Tughlaqabad and Sangam Vihar. The 8.4-km stretch is planned as the initial section". December is the last month of the year the pin already sat on, so the day stands at 31 December 2026 - now as the end of a named month rather than a bare year. The full Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor follows later.The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.0.66Mumbai's Aqua Line Metro Reaches Cuffe Parade, Completing the Line
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE350 days agoThe article states the final stretch "from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade was inaugurated by Modi, along with the Navi Mumbai International Airport on 8 October 2025".[1]The last 10.99 km stretch, from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, opened to passengers and completed the 33.5 km Aqua Line, Mumbai's first fully underground metro with 27 stations. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation's managing director put the line's completion cost at about 30,000 crore rupees.0.65Mexico's AIFA-Pachuca Passenger Train Starts Running
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysThe federal project page gives the AIFA-Pachuca section an "Execution period and start of operations: 2 years (2025-2027)", a year rather than a fixed day.[1]The third stage of the Mexico-Pachuca "Felipe Angeles" train runs 65 km of electrified double track from the AIFA airport terminal in the State of Mexico to Pachuca in Hidalgo, with stations at AIFA, Xaltocan II, Tizayuca-Temascalapa, Jaguey de Tellez and Pachuca plus four intermediate stops, and is meant to carry over 100,000 passengers a day in 1 hour 15 minutes end to end. The Felipe Angeles Engineers Corps of the defence ministry began construction in March 2025 and reported 37.06 per cent overall progress in June 2026.MX$44B0.65Madrid–Barcelona High-Speed Line Opens, Completing Spain's Flagship AVE Corridor
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE18.6 years agoWikipedia's[3] Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line article gives 20 February 2008 as the date the complete line opened, after the Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida section opened in October 2003.Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.0.65Mumbai'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 2025.0.64Panama Metro Line 3 Opens
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 251 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…il 2027. Phase 2 is 58% complete and is scheduled for completion in October 2028, when commercial op…"A monorail crossing the Panama Canal through a new 4 km tunnel to reach the fast-growing west of the city. Estimated date.$4B0.64TBM Wanda Completes Drilling of the Albvorland Tunnel
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE6.9 years agoImplenia's[4] own project news release dates the southern tube breakthrough to 29 October 2019.Tunnel boring machine Wanda finished excavating the southern tube of the Albvorland Tunnel, the last major breakthrough on Deutsche Bahn's Stuttgart-Ulm high-speed line. The 8-kilometer twin-tube tunnel near Wendlingen am Neckar was built by Implenia and cuts travel time between Stuttgart and Ulm to roughly 30 minutes.0.63
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