Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
January 12, 2010 An inaugural ceremony was held for an addition to the rapid transit system serving Chile’s capital city of Santiago. This extension of Line 5 of the Santiago Metro covered 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) between Quinta Normal metro station (opened in 2004) at Catedral Street and Matucana Avenue; and Pudahuel metro station at... Continue Reading →
January 2, 1983 Pérez Bonalde station was opened as part of the 7.1-mile (11.5-kilometer) inaugural segment of the mass rapid transit system serving the capital of Venezuela. This station, which is located in the city’s parish (administrative division) of Sucre, was one of the eight stations of Line 1 of the Caracas Metro that made... Continue Reading →
December 8, 1984 A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) transit station was opened in the city of Cambridge in the Greater Boston metropolitan area. This station is located at the intersection of of Massachusetts and Somerville Avenues in Cambridge’s Porter Square neighborhood. Porter station serves the Red Line, one of MBTA’s rapid transit lines; the... Continue Reading →
November 14, 1982 Manors Metro station in northeastern England’s ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear was officially opened. This station, which is located in the Shieldfield area of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, is part of the region’s Tyne and Wear Metro light rail rapid transit system. Measuring a total of... Continue Reading →
October 31, 2011 A rapid transit system in Algiers, the largest city and capital of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, was inaugurated. This system was officially opened by Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937-2021), Algeria’s president from 1999 to 2019. The Algiers Metro became the second rapid transit system in Africa to go into service. (The first... Continue Reading →
October 27, 2008 In western Switzerland’s canton (member state) of Vaud, a rapid transit station was officially opened near the Place de la Riponne in the city of Lausanne. The Place de la Riponne is a historically significant grand square at the center of Lausanne, which is Switzerland’s fourth largest city and the capital of... Continue Reading →
September 28, 2022 Bródno station on Line M2 of the Warsaw Metro rapid transit underground system first went into service. This station, which marks the eastern terminus of that line, is located in the vicinity of Kondratowicza, Rembielińska, and Bazyliańska Streets in the Bródno neighborhood of Poland’s capital city. Construction on the station began in... Continue Reading →
September 13, 2015 On the West Side of Manhattan, a newly built subway station in the neighborhood of Hudson Yards was officially opened. The 34th Street-Hudson Yards station is part of the New York City Subway’s IRT Flushing Line, which is named for its eastern terminus in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens.... Continue Reading →
August 30, 1983 Miguel Ángel de Quevedo station of the Mexico City Metro, the rapid transit system serving the metropolitan area of Mexico’s capital, was officially opened. This station is part of Line 3, which is the longest of the Mexico City Metro’s 12 lines. Miguel Ángel de Quevedo station is specifically located at the... Continue Reading →
August 11, 2015 A grand opening was held for a newly built rapid transit station in the University Circle neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland. This station, which is part of the Red Line of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority -- best known as RTA -- is specifically located at the intersection of... Continue Reading →
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