Cities getting new transit systems/expansions
 

What are some cities either getting new transit systems or expansions? Doesn't have to be major cities. Including small or midsized cities as well.

The Phoenix Metro area is constantly getting expansion to its light rail which is linked into the Airport tram, which is also expanding.

South Central Expansion Construction just began

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West Side Expansion Final Plan, funded, Expected completion 2024 for Phase one and 2030 for phase 2:

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Phase 2/ Full west valley build out:

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Full Planned Expansions:

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Tempe Street car (connects to light rail) Under construction:

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The Airport Sky Train expansion, Connects to the light rail, all terminals and Remote parking, is now connecting to the Rental Car center, also they are going to build an Airport Hotel that will connect to the Skytrain:

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And lastly the long term potential plan to build commuter rail and inter-city between Phoenix and Tucson. Basic plans have been finalized but it isnt funded and not a state priority at the moment. Maybe some day:

Yellow Route was chose

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That's cool Obadno! I saw a story in your city's newspaper about how the light rail system is expanding downtown and plans eventually to go to west Phoenix to hopefully alleviate some of the heavy traffic. Isn't there a line that goes out to Mesa?

Its just one really long line that goes from the north end of Phoenix through downtown and over into Tempe and Mesa (through their downtown's)

The new expansions will turn it into 2 lines, an East-West and a North-South + The skytrain and the Tempe street car lines.

And if future expansions take it up to Paradise Valley & Over to Glendale that will either add an additional east-west line or independent spur lines. Those expansions are many years off and have not been fully planned yet.

There are massive subway extension/construction under way in Paris.
There are currently 12 TBM boring the ground under Paris and 5 more in assembly.

There is the big Grand Paris Express project with four new lines (line 15, 16, 17, 18 and the extension of line 14, note that the line 11 further extension project is currently on hold).
Thats 200 new km of subway and 61 new stations

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(A view of what is currently under construction in this project).
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Outside the massive global project, there are other metro extension under construction.

Line 4 : southbound 1.5 km and 2 stations (opening in 2021)
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Line 11 : northeastern bound 5.5 km and 6 stations (opening in 2023)
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Line 12 : northernbound 1.5 km and 2 stations (opening in 2021)
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Line 14 :northernbound 5 km and 5 stations (opening in 2020)
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Line 14 has three extensions under construction.
-Saint-Lazare to Mairie de Saint Ouen (2020, nearly completed)
Two under the Grand Paris Express project contracts
-Mairie de Saint Ouen to Carrefour Pleyel (2024)
-Olympiades to Orly airport (2024)
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Photos of the construction work at Villejuif institut Gustave Roussy where the southern extension of line 14 and the new line 15 will meet.
https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/g...r-allison-2814

There are also other projects like an eastern extension for line 1 but not yet under construction.
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The RER E is being extended westbound (50 km) from Haussmann Saint-Lazare to Mantes la Jolie with a new km of 8 km (Haussmann Saint-Lazare to Nanterre la Folie).

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San Francisco has 2 projects underway--actually past their original completion dates--and one in planning:

Central Subway/Muni T-line (light rail) phase 2 (under construction)
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Subway station under construction 9/19:

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Van Ness (under construction) and Geary (planned) BRT projects:

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This gives an idea of what the BRT lines (this one on Van Ness Ave) will be like (and yes, the bus-only lanes actually will be painted red):

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Besides these 3 projects within the city, in the suburbs a major project is underway to extend the BART heavy subway/commuter rail system through San Jose so that there is transit pretty much circling the southern (south of SF) portion of San Francisco Bay (with an electrified CalTrain closing the SF to SJ gap on the western side of the Bay).

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Phase 1 of the extention is nearly complete. Phase 2 is still being planned.

The expansion of the Shanghai Metro, the world's 2nd longest and 2nd busiest, continues at a breakneck pace. Current lines under construction:
Line 10 northern extension - Xinjiangwancheng - Jilong Road (10km, 6 stations)
Line 14 - Fengbang - Guqiao Road (39.1km, 31 stations)
Line 15 - Gucun Park - Zizhu Hi-tech Zone (42.3km, 30 stations)
Line 18 - Changbei Road - Hangtou (44.6km, 30 stations)
Airport Link Line - Hongqiao International Aiport - Pudong International Airport (68.7km, 9 stations)

There are also 4 more lines (19, 20, 21, and 23) that are approved and likely to start construction in the near future.

Houston voters approved a $3.5 Billion Light Rail & Bus Rapid Transit Expansion. Including a bus rapid transit line to Bush Intercontinental and light rail to Hobby Airport. Along with new park and rides and bus expansion.

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Here is a bigger picture of the project.

Vancouver is extending the Millennium line as a subway down one of the cities busiest corridors.

It will be a 5.7 km extension and add 6 stations. Part of the line will continue above ground from the current terminus station of VCC Clarke and there will be one station just before it enters a tunnel and continues underground as a subway under broadway.

Construction starts this year and should open in 2025. With this extension, there will be a major transfer point to the Canada Line making trips to the airport easier for many riders.

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How the two trains will interact at Broadway/City Hall
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example of one of the stations. There is talk that there will be a more significant tower than is shown.

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full info: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/broadwaysubway/

Wow, Paris!

Birmingham, Alabama is starting construction on the "Birmingham Xpress" (BX), which is a Bus Rapid Transit system.

Link here: https://www.birminghamal.gov/brt

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Some station info / renderings at the bottom of this page: https://www.birminghamal.gov/publicinvolvement

Montreal's new REM light electric rail is a 6.3 billion dollar project along a 42 mile long route (67 km). The system will cross three shores, and involve the restructuring of an existing North shore line into downtown, and construction of a new West Island line with a bifurcation allowing a subway line to the airport and a South Shore line.

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LA has so many train lines proposed I lose track of them (and whats real or not)

But U/C

Crenshaw Line light rail to Lax
Gold Line light rail extensions
Regional Connecter subway
Purple Line subway to the Westside
Santa Ana light rail?

I'm sure there's a few BRT and Commuter rail things I'm missing.

Also in reference to the potential Phoenix-Tucson commuter rail, is there quite a bit of commuter traffic between Phoenix and Tucson?

London

The biggie is the new Crossrail/ Elizabeth Line (41 stations, 60 miles, $24 billion), which will be the new fast line that goes through the centre, and will see it swamped with over 200 million users a year when it opens, or about 600,000 users daily.

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the Northern Line Extension into the new skyscraper district at Vauxhall and Battersea

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and the Croxley Rail Link

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And Barking Riverside extension of the Overground (a network of tube like trains and frequencies but overground, not to be confused with the mainline train network in the city)

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For the next decade there will be a Bakerloo line extension, finally serving South London (harder to tunnel through due to bedrock, they always relied on trainlines instead)


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and possibly a new line from Euston to Canary Wharf.

Then Crossrail 2, just as mammoth a task as Crossrail 1

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Portland is going to try brt again. Its bringing back articulated buses and is going to have a 15 mile "express" run down one of our busiest streets. I'd just call it accelerated instead. The higher capacity bus plus a few less stops will save commuters about 12 minutes if they do the whole route. It will have frequent service tho so there will be less waiting..

75 metropolitan area level crossing removal projects are happening, 32 have now been complete.

One example, the railway used to be where the park is now:

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There's also a project to link the mainline through the inner/middle/outer south-eastern suburbs to the main inner/middle/outer northwestern rail line (Melbourne Metro project).

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We'll be getting a dedicated fleet that will operate that new linked line:

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We're getting an Airport rail Link at long last.

We're also going to start to see the Suburban Rail Loop project kick off within a few years that runs through the middle ring of Melbourne's suburbs - mostly underground - and will be linking job centres small and large - all will be accompanied by structure planning to densify uses right across the metro area (resi/office/insto/commercial/other job space). First phase is Cheltenham to Box Hill.

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In addition to the REM ($6.4G), Montreal also has the Blue line extension, with 5 stations on 5.8 km. Start date of 2021 for a completion date of 2026:

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And a BRT line on Pie-IX Boulevard opening in 2021, currently under construction:

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Great stuff from all around the world!