Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
September 30, 1973 Operations began for a rapid transit station within the Östermalm district in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm. This station was built as part of an extension of Line 14 of the Stockholm Metro’s Metro 2 line, which would be officially designated as the Red Line during the 1990s. The station is only... Continue Reading →
September 28, 1969 Operations began for an extension of the Chicago “L” rapid transit system serving the Windy City and a few of its surrounding suburbs within Cook County, Illinois. (The “L” stands for “elevated.”) The newly completed extension was named after Dan Ryan (1894-1961), who served as a member of the Cook County Board... Continue Reading →
September 21, 1990 In the Belgian city and municipality of Antwerp, a newly built underground station first went into operation. Van Eeden station is in Antwerp’s suburb of Linkeroever on the left bank of the river Scheldt. (“Linkeroever” is the Dutch phrase for “left bank.”) The station is part of the Antwerp premetro, which encompasses... Continue Reading →
September 18, 2020 A bus terminal in Patliputra (also officially known as Patna), the capital and largest city of eastern India’s state Bihar, made its public debut. This type of building is classified as an Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT), a facility that provides bus services to destinations both within the state where it is located... Continue Reading →
September 14, 2009 Fair Park station became one of the four original stops of the Green Line of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), an agency serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex of Texas, to be opened to the public. Fair Park station is in the South Dallas neighborhood of the Lone Star State city famously... Continue Reading →
August 19, 2011 In southeastern Virginia’s Hampton Roads metropolitan area, operations began for the light rail system based in the city of Norfolk and named the Tide. This light rail system was the first one to go into service in the Old Dominion. The Tide, which took a little over three years to build, is... Continue Reading →
August 12, 1991 Guelatao station of the Mexico City Metro, the rapid transit system serving the metropolitan area of Mexico’s capital, first went into service. This station was one of 10 constituting Line A of the system to be opened on the same date. Line A, which is also known as the Purple Line, became... Continue Reading →
August 5, 2012 Operations began for a railbus service in the Indonesian province of Central Java. Batara Kresna Railbus was formally inaugurated on that Sunday by Bambang Susanto (born in 1963), who was Indonesia’s deputy minister of transportation from 2009 to 2014. This railbus service, which is operated by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (the country’s... Continue Reading →
July 17, 2006 A light rail system serving Newark, New Jersey, and surrounding communities was inaugurated. The Newark Light Rail (NLR) is owned and operated by NJ Transit Bus Operations, a division of the state-owned New Jersey Transit Corporation. NLR was developed from a combination of Newark City Subway, which had been launched in 1935,... Continue Reading →
July 1, 1977 The Blue Line of the Washington Metro first went into service. This line’s inaugural stretch between National Airport station in Arlington County, Virginia, and Stadium-Armory station in southeast Washington, D.C., joined the Red Line (introduced the previous year) in forming what was then the world’s newest major rapid transit system. The Orange... Continue Reading →
