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The first 15 km stretch of Chennai Metro Phase 2 opened Sunday, from Poonamallee to Vadapalani with 11 stations and a 3.7 km double decker viaduct. The trains are built to run with no driver, but staff stay onboard until mid 2027.
Turkey opened a 153 km high-speed rail section on Oct. 9 that runs from west of Istanbul to Kapıkule on the Bulgarian border. Once the full line is done, the trip from Istanbul's edge to the border drops from four hours to 1.5.
Starting Sunday, Oct. 11, NJ Transit and Amtrak begin five weeks of reduced service to move the last Northeast Corridor track off the 116-year-old Portal Bridge and onto the new $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge. Regular schedules are expected back Nov. 15.
The Gateway Development Commission says the first tunnel boring machine for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project has started mining in North Bergen, N.J., on schedule. A second machine follows in the coming weeks, and the pair should reach the Weehawken and Hoboken shaft in about a year.
On Oct. 5, crews lifted the last of 2,740 precast concrete segments into place on HS2's Wendover green tunnel in Buckinghamshire, linking the two halves for the first time. Next comes backfill, a road over the top, and landscaping.
NHSRCL completed a 480-metre, 36-metre-tall bridge over the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor. Gujarat now has 18 of 21 river bridges done.
Boring Company’s Vegas Loop: 14 stations and 4M+ passengers today, aiming for 28 by year-end, entitled for 123 / 68 miles — plus a September south push on Paradise Road. Toy or transit? Throughput decides.
Sept. 7–8 drone footage shows Prufrock-MB1 and MB2 tunneling at once through 10,000+ psi Music City limestone. FOX17: MB3 due this month; company targets partial ops in 2027. What’s dug vs approved vs still a slide.
HUMAIN and DataVolt started construction on a 100 MW slice of a 360 MW first phase at Oxagon — a planned 1.5 GW AI data center campus aimed at exporting compute.
Rockets get the hype. Ground stations, debris rules, and refueling decide who compounds.