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Honolulu Skyline Fully Open
ESTIMATED61% CONFIDENCEin 4.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "...is still expected to open in 2031..."The first fully driverless metro in the United States, reaching Pearl Harbor and downtown Honolulu in its final phase. Estimated date.$10.2B0.73Etihad Rail Launches First UAE Passenger Trains
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE85 days agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the first phase of its passenger train services will begin on June 30".Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.$11B0.66Austin Light Rail Breaks Ground on Its First Line
Guadalupe Street at Republic Square, downtown Austin, TX 78701, United StatesAustin Transit Partnership
ESTIMATED50% 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.0.64Auckland City Rail Link Opens
Auckland, New Zealand
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEin 39 daysGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…kland Transport and KiwiRail.[13] It is scheduled to open on 13 September 2026.[14] Initial proposal…"Twin 3.45 km tunnels turning Britomart from a dead-end terminus into a through station, doubling rail capacity. Estimated date.NZ$5.5B0.63California High-Speed Rail Central Valley Service
ESTIMATED55% CONFIDENCEin 6.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…nder construction in the United States. Estimated date.…"The first operating segment, Merced to Bakersfield, of the only true high-speed rail project under construction in the United States. Estimated date.$108.5B0.63Jurong Region Line Stage 1 Opens in Singapore's West
DELAYED6 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 1.8 yearsLTA's[1] March 2026 rail factsheet says "Stage 1 of the JRL will open around mid-2028, instead of the initial end-2027 timeline", so the day here stands for mid-2028.The first stage of Singapore's fully elevated, driverless Jurong Region Line opens, serving Tengah and the western estates around Choa Chu Kang. LTA pushed the opening back by about six months after viaduct construction over the Pan-Island Expressway could only be carried out during overnight road closures, and will run interim shuttle buses from end-2027 until the line opens.0.6330th Street Station's South Retail Concourse Opens
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 69 daysThe redevelopment's schedule page gives a season, not a day: "We anticipate the South Station Retail Concourse opening to the public in late 2026 and construction continuing through 2028."[1]The first large public piece of Amtrak's phased rebuild of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station: a restored concourse of shops and restaurants beneath the 1933 building, part of a redevelopment of nearly 500,000 square feet running to 2028.0.63Delhi's Namo Bharat Rapid Rail Priority Section Opens
Sahibabad RRTS Station, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaNational Capital Region Transport Corporation
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the 17km "stretch from Duhai Depot (in Ghaziabad) to Sahibabad near the Delhi border" opened to the public the day after its Friday inauguration.The first 17km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS, India's first regional rapid rail line, was inaugurated as "Namo Bharat," opening to passengers the next day.$4B0.63Sungei Bedok Opens, Joining the Thomson-East Coast and Downtown Lines
DELAYED2 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.0.63O'Hare's Satellite Concourse 1 Is Finished
Satellite Concourse 1, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IllinoisChicago Department of Aviation
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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.$12B0.62Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop East Targets 2035 Opening
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 9.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: Stage One "will cost an estimated $33BN and will be finished by 2035," a target that depends on continued state funding for a multi-decade build.Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop, a 90km orbital line built to connect Melbourne's suburbs without funnelling every trip through downtown, is aiming to open its first 26km stage in 2035. The state costs its first two stages at AUD $31-58BN; Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office put the build at $125BN.0.62
