Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
November 5, 2009 An elevated infill station on Line 4 of the Chilean rapid transit system known as the Santiago Metro was opened to the public. This station, which is located at the intersection of Vicuña Mackenna Avenue and San José de la Estrella Street in the commune of La Florida in Chile’s capital city,... Continue Reading →
November 2, 1985 In Czechoslovakia’s capital city, Karlovo náměstí station became part of the inaugural section of Line B of the rapid transit system known as the Prague Metro to be opened. This section covers three miles (4.9 kilometers) between Florenc and Smíchovské nádraží stations. At the time, Czechoslovakia was still under communist rule. That... Continue Reading →
October 27, 1999 Eugenia da Montijo station was opened as an infill station of Line 5 of the Madrid Metro, a rapid transit system serving the metropolitan area of Spain’s capital city. An infill station is a type of passenger rail station that is built on an existing line between two similar stations already in... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
June 30, 2023 On Hawaii’s island of Oʻahu, Kualakaʻi station in the community of East Kapolei first went into service. This station was one of nine that were officially opened on the same date. These stations constituted the inaugural segment of Skyline, a light metro rapid transit system that is managed by the Honolulu Department... Continue Reading →
June 24, 2024 Operations formally began for a Paris Metro station built at Orly Airport, which is located approximately 8.1 miles (13 kilometers) south of the central area of France’s capital city. This airport is based in Paris’s southern suburbs of Orly and Villeneuve-le-Roi. It is one of two international airports serving Paris. (The other... Continue Reading →
June 1, 1982 A little over two months before the Helsinki Metro was officially inaugurated, Hakaniemi station became one of a few stations of that rapid transit system to be opened to the public for test drives of trains during the morning and afternoon rush hours. Hakaniemi station is named for an area within the... Continue Reading →
