Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
November 13, 2022 In the Central Region of Singapore, Napier Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station was opened as part of an extension of the medium-capacity Thomson-East Coast Line. This underground station is located at the junction of Napier, Holland, and Cluny Roads in the planning area of Tanglin. Napier MRT station is accessible to Singapore... Continue Reading →
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 3, 2024 Operations began for Aviation/Century station on the C and K lines of Metro Rail, the urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County. This elevated light rail station is located at the intersection of Aviation Boulevard and Century Boulevard in the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles. Aviation/Century station features... 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 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 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 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 7, 1973 On the south shore of Long Island, a newly built railroad station in the village of Amityville first went into service. Amityville is located mostly in the town of Babylon in Suffolk County; a small portion of the village lies within the town of Oyster Bay in neighboring Nassau County. Amityville station... 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 26, 2004 Just northwest of downtown Minneapolis, operations began for a light rail station built in the city’s Warehouse District – a longtime neighborhood – on 5th Street North (between 1st Avenue North and Hennepin Avenue). The Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station was constructed as part of the first segment of the Blue Line of... Continue Reading →
