LA Transit Nerd here. The measure limiting funds from Props A and C is still in effect. What was repealed was a measure banning all above grade rail projects in the San Fernando Valley. Financing wise, what has changed is Measures R and M which helped finance (at least with measure R) the D Line extension. AFAIK, while the ban was in place before Measure R, Metro got around the ban on subway funds being used by creative accounting with the Gold Line Eastside Line, where federal funds they got paid for the tunneled segment of the line while Metro paid for the street running segments.
@@qjtvaddict not quite if we look at the history. The Santa Monica Air Line was not on Metro's radar for a while after they purchased it and other SP rights of way in the early 1990's as part of Proposition C. In that period, a mid city subway was still being planned along with both a SFV subway and an Eastside subway. Even with ballooning construction costs, very public construction mishaps, and the general public/political turmoil that surrounded the LA Transit scene in the 1990's (including the forced merger of the SCRTD and LACTC into the Metro we know today). When the subway plans began to fall apart in the late 90's due to costs and the ban on Props A/C for subway use, Metro had to get creative. The conversion of the Air Line to transit use was kind of a consolation prize for the then apparent death of the Wilshire Subway. Initially Metro wanted to do a cheap BRT (either as a stand alone Expo BRT or in combo with a Wilshire BRT) as they had seen done in other countries and what they would eventually create in the Valley as a consolation project for the killed Rail Rapid Transit conversion of the Burbank Line. Local activists pushed back and fought hard for the Expo Line to be rail and won. But that came at a price as Metro had to do it as cheaply as possible both because of the ban, and because of how the Feds were handling transit grants by this point. Initially they wanted it to be all at grade where it would tie into the Blue Line just east of the Grand Ave station with only 1 grade separation at La Cienega. The EIR process and community pushback led to other grade separations at Culver City, La Brea, in University Park to bring the Line onto Flower St (Caltrans allowed for Metro to widen the Flower St Bridge for this project), and an infill station at Farmdale (so Metro could avoid extending the La Brea Viaduct to Farmdale to give better safety for a nearby school). The decisions we see on the Expo Line, Eastside Access line, and the Orange Line are all compromises made to bring consolation transit schemes to life when the Subway plans fell apart. If you want a more in depth history, I seriously recommend reading "Railtown, The Fight for Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City" by Ethan Elkind. It is the source for the fight to get rail transit in LA and the incredibly messy decades that were the 1980's and 1990's.
@@Strigon07 It is, even more dumb was the SFV ban on above grade rail projects which only got overturned before COVID. TBH both of these measures were from a small transit revolt which happened in the late 90's and early 2000's after over a decade of issues outshining the transit triumphs. Between the infighting of the RTD and LACTC (which left the newly created Metro in a fair amount of debt), the many public accidents on the initial phases of the Red Line, the cost overruns of the early lines (some due to mismanagement, others due to municipalities trying to squeeze as much additional funds for unrelated uses from transit projects as possible), a lack luster project in the form of the C Line (partly because it was forced to be a rail line from a BRT to serve the industries of El Segundo which collapsed after the end of the Cold War), excessive community opposition, and even transit riders revolting because of worsening bus services; it was a perfect storm. Metro was thankfully able to partially build trust again in the 2000's with the opening of the Gold Line, Orange Line, Silver Line, Blue Line improvements, Red LIne to NoHo, and Eastside Access lines which lead to Measure R and its projects, and now Measure M and its projects.
You left out several additional transit rail openings for 2025 in the Greater Los Angeles area other than the D Line subway extension, namely: 1. A Line extension to Pomona. 2. OC Streetcar in Santa Ana and Garden Grove. 3. The LAX/Metro Transit Center station and completion of the K Line (although the People Mover to LAX itself won't be open until 2026).
You missed South Coast Rail on the MBTA Commuter Rail, which is set to open Spring 2025, providing rail service to the Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford for the first time in over half a century.
6:43 the Belmont Flyover itself was completed in 2021 (allowing Brown Line trains to pass over the Red and Purple lines, where it used to have to slowly snake across all four tracks at-grade), but the RPM project also includes a full rebuild of the four Purple and Red line tracks between Belmont and Addison
You missed the East Link Extension in Seattle, opening late 2025. It connects the two separate light rail lines across a floating bridge, which is a big deal for Bellevue to Seattle commuters.
While the first portal bridge serves as an agreement replacement for the old one, the second bridge will be built in conjunction of the second tunnel pair which is needed to fix up the existing hudson tunnel which was badly damage from hurricane Sandy
2 projects in Sweden are also being completed this year, a tram extension to the redeloped docks in Lindholmen in Gothenburg, and a new tunnel with double track under varberg which will mean that there will only be a very short section of single track left on the west coast line.
Minor math objection. We are still closer to the year 2000 than to the year 2050 until June. However, we are now closer to the _start_ of 2050 than to the _start_ of 2000. It's a weird thing about years having non-zero duration. On the day of publication, it has been 24 years 11 days since the end of 2000 and it will be 24 years 354 days until the start of 2050.
2:49 or change at one of the central stations to C-5, then to Line 3 at Embajadores or Line 1 at Atocha (which are fairly lengthy). However, I think most people will use it to reach the Hospital Doce de Octubre and people around El Casar to reach C-4 and back semi-back track vs commuting to Sol
Nice! A few points : Here, "Western hemisphere" (about the Portal Bridge) essentially just means West of the Atlantic or simply American continent, and not "in Western countries" nor "West of the Greenwich meridian". In 2025, there'll also be the opening of Cable C1 urbain transit gondola line in Southwestern Paris. It will be the first gondola system in the city-region. First of several, as the name of the name suggests. It will extend metro line 8 by about 4.5 kilometers with 5 stations and 105 cabins (at opening). Next week, there will be the opening of the Villejuif Gustave Roussy hub station of the Grand Paris Express on metro line 14 South extension. It's not an infill station per se as it was built simultaneously with the extension but just opened 7 months later. That's where line 14 and the South section of M15 will cross each other inside a huge cylindrical well. It's visually stunning. M14's tracks and platforms are located inside a bridge-tunnel traversing the cylinder over M15 station, which is built at the bottom of the well. There'll also be the opening of line TZen 4, a new electric BRT / trambus line that will run Van Hool ExquiCity 24m long biarticulated battery-electric busses using Alstom fast charging systems via ground pads in certain stations. The busses look like trams, a bit like "Brisbane Metro" busses but with 4 double doors and stations have platforms similar to low-floor tramway lines. The line should have opened in 2024, but it was postponed due to Van Hool having financial issues impacting bus production.
I hope one day, we'll have a Queens to Bronx train. Preferably a Laconia-Main St Line, JFK Airport to Edenwald. I have a UA-cam short of this route on my channel.
2025 will also mark the start of construction for two S-Bahn projects here in Frankfurt. The second phase of quadrupleling Track on the Main-Weser-Bahn between Bad Vilbel and Friedberg. With that the S6 will have dedicated tracks the whole way to its Terminus in Friedberg. Furthermore the Nordmainische S-Bahn is starting construction on the only underground station of this entirely new line, the above ground part will start a bit later.
You missed the two SMART extensions in the Bay Area. One is opening in 2025 the other will break ground, and they just opened a new infill station a couple of days ago. Also, the ValleyLink Blue line BART extension is supposed to start construction some time this year.
Subway Lines we'd like to see in 2025 The Second Avenue Tunnel to upper Broadway The Interborough Express hopefully as light metro with a future upgrade to Division A interchangability And the most needed of all: Queenslink! 😊
one you left out is Rome's Line C finally reaching the Coliseum. It's been ten years in the making and, alongside the other station being opened, Porta Metronia, will add two new museum-stations to the line.
Santiago Monorail will be opening this year, right in the backyard of the U.S. Panama City Line 3 (A monorail) will also be opening, and it’ll cross the Panama Canal.
I'd like to add that Dublin, (Republic of Ireland) Metrolink automated Metro will likely receive planning permission. Contracts on the approved DART+ West (To Maynooth) and DART+ South West (To Hazelhatch & Celbridge) electrification projects to expand the "Dublin Area Rapid Transit" network will likely be awarded in 2025 for work to start next year. DART+ Northern to Drogheda will likely receive permission by the end of the year. Following full testing and commissioning of the new trains, 2026 will see the operation of the new Battery Electric Hybrid trains operating on the line under power to the current DART terminus at Malahide, and under battery power all the way to new charging points at the Drogheda fleet management yard.
The Kansas City Streetcar will open the Main Street Extension, more than doubling its trackage and taking streetcars south all the way to the university
I hope you're correct - but I cannot imagine the Portal Bridge is operable in any way tbis year. I be surprised if trains traverse the bridge before 2027...
You still have to keep an eye on other transit projects even if it doesn't happen in this year like the projects, the IBX and the Queens link in NYC which will take some time to build and complete and LA's D line extension still has phase two and three to deal with while the fourth phase is unknown if they'll decide to do it or have the funding for it in the future
LA Transit Nerd here. The measure limiting funds from Props A and C is still in effect. What was repealed was a measure banning all above grade rail projects in the San Fernando Valley. Financing wise, what has changed is Measures R and M which helped finance (at least with measure R) the D Line extension. AFAIK, while the ban was in place before Measure R, Metro got around the ban on subway funds being used by creative accounting with the Gold Line Eastside Line, where federal funds they got paid for the tunneled segment of the line while Metro paid for the street running segments.
The ban ruined the E line with the ban lifted it can be fully upgraded with ELs to replace the street running parts
@@qjtvaddict not quite if we look at the history. The Santa Monica Air Line was not on Metro's radar for a while after they purchased it and other SP rights of way in the early 1990's as part of Proposition C. In that period, a mid city subway was still being planned along with both a SFV subway and an Eastside subway. Even with ballooning construction costs, very public construction mishaps, and the general public/political turmoil that surrounded the LA Transit scene in the 1990's (including the forced merger of the SCRTD and LACTC into the Metro we know today). When the subway plans began to fall apart in the late 90's due to costs and the ban on Props A/C for subway use, Metro had to get creative. The conversion of the Air Line to transit use was kind of a consolation prize for the then apparent death of the Wilshire Subway. Initially Metro wanted to do a cheap BRT (either as a stand alone Expo BRT or in combo with a Wilshire BRT) as they had seen done in other countries and what they would eventually create in the Valley as a consolation project for the killed Rail Rapid Transit conversion of the Burbank Line. Local activists pushed back and fought hard for the Expo Line to be rail and won. But that came at a price as Metro had to do it as cheaply as possible both because of the ban, and because of how the Feds were handling transit grants by this point. Initially they wanted it to be all at grade where it would tie into the Blue Line just east of the Grand Ave station with only 1 grade separation at La Cienega. The EIR process and community pushback led to other grade separations at Culver City, La Brea, in University Park to bring the Line onto Flower St (Caltrans allowed for Metro to widen the Flower St Bridge for this project), and an infill station at Farmdale (so Metro could avoid extending the La Brea Viaduct to Farmdale to give better safety for a nearby school). The decisions we see on the Expo Line, Eastside Access line, and the Orange Line are all compromises made to bring consolation transit schemes to life when the Subway plans fell apart. If you want a more in depth history, I seriously recommend reading "Railtown, The Fight for Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City" by Ethan Elkind. It is the source for the fight to get rail transit in LA and the incredibly messy decades that were the 1980's and 1990's.
This measure is so dumb all around.
@@Strigon07 It is, even more dumb was the SFV ban on above grade rail projects which only got overturned before COVID.
TBH both of these measures were from a small transit revolt which happened in the late 90's and early 2000's after over a decade of issues outshining the transit triumphs. Between the infighting of the RTD and LACTC (which left the newly created Metro in a fair amount of debt), the many public accidents on the initial phases of the Red Line, the cost overruns of the early lines (some due to mismanagement, others due to municipalities trying to squeeze as much additional funds for unrelated uses from transit projects as possible), a lack luster project in the form of the C Line (partly because it was forced to be a rail line from a BRT to serve the industries of El Segundo which collapsed after the end of the Cold War), excessive community opposition, and even transit riders revolting because of worsening bus services; it was a perfect storm. Metro was thankfully able to partially build trust again in the 2000's with the opening of the Gold Line, Orange Line, Silver Line, Blue Line improvements, Red LIne to NoHo, and Eastside Access lines which lead to Measure R and its projects, and now Measure M and its projects.
You left out several additional transit rail openings for 2025 in the Greater Los Angeles area other than the D Line subway extension, namely:
1. A Line extension to Pomona.
2. OC Streetcar in Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
3. The LAX/Metro Transit Center station and completion of the K Line (although the People Mover to LAX itself won't be open until 2026).
You missed South Coast Rail on the MBTA Commuter Rail, which is set to open Spring 2025, providing rail service to the Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford for the first time in over half a century.
6:43 the Belmont Flyover itself was completed in 2021 (allowing Brown Line trains to pass over the Red and Purple lines, where it used to have to slowly snake across all four tracks at-grade), but the RPM project also includes a full rebuild of the four Purple and Red line tracks between Belmont and Addison
I’m like that been done only new viaduct in area needs to be completed
You missed the East Link Extension in Seattle, opening late 2025. It connects the two separate light rail lines across a floating bridge, which is a big deal for Bellevue to Seattle commuters.
At the end of 2025 Seattle will open the world’s first rail line across a floating bridge.
While the first portal bridge serves as an agreement replacement for the old one, the second bridge will be built in conjunction of the second tunnel pair which is needed to fix up the existing hudson tunnel which was badly damage from hurricane Sandy
Toronto's line 5 will finally open🙏
Let’s hope that happens!
In theory it will open. Personally I give zero chance opening this year if ever.
2 projects in Sweden are also being completed this year, a tram extension to the redeloped docks in Lindholmen in Gothenburg, and a new tunnel with double track under varberg which will mean that there will only be a very short section of single track left on the west coast line.
Minor math objection. We are still closer to the year 2000 than to the year 2050 until June. However, we are now closer to the _start_ of 2050 than to the _start_ of 2000. It's a weird thing about years having non-zero duration. On the day of publication, it has been 24 years 11 days since the end of 2000 and it will be 24 years 354 days until the start of 2050.
Watching the ongoing construction of the new Portal Bridge in New Jersey is amazing! So much stuff to look at.
2:49 or change at one of the central stations to C-5, then to Line 3 at Embajadores or Line 1 at Atocha (which are fairly lengthy). However, I think most people will use it to reach the Hospital Doce de Octubre and people around El Casar to reach C-4 and back semi-back track vs commuting to Sol
I have never been to an opening of a new transit project before. Hoping to change that this year!
Nice!
A few points :
Here, "Western hemisphere" (about the Portal Bridge) essentially just means West of the Atlantic or simply American continent, and not "in Western countries" nor "West of the Greenwich meridian".
In 2025, there'll also be the opening of Cable C1 urbain transit gondola line in Southwestern Paris. It will be the first gondola system in the city-region. First of several, as the name of the name suggests. It will extend metro line 8 by about 4.5 kilometers with 5 stations and 105 cabins (at opening).
Next week, there will be the opening of the Villejuif Gustave Roussy hub station of the Grand Paris Express on metro line 14 South extension.
It's not an infill station per se as it was built simultaneously with the extension but just opened 7 months later.
That's where line 14 and the South section of M15 will cross each other inside a huge cylindrical well. It's visually stunning.
M14's tracks and platforms are located inside a bridge-tunnel traversing the cylinder over M15 station, which is built at the bottom of the well.
There'll also be the opening of line TZen 4, a new electric BRT / trambus line that will run Van Hool ExquiCity 24m long biarticulated battery-electric busses using Alstom fast charging systems via ground pads in certain stations.
The busses look like trams, a bit like "Brisbane Metro" busses but with 4 double doors and stations have platforms similar to low-floor tramway lines.
The line should have opened in 2024, but it was postponed due to Van Hool having financial issues impacting bus production.
Urban man's video are great
Madrid mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
I hope one day, we'll have a Queens to Bronx train. Preferably a Laconia-Main St Line, JFK Airport to Edenwald. I have a UA-cam short of this route on my channel.
PROGRESS‼️👏🏾👏🏾
2025 will also mark the start of construction for two S-Bahn projects here in Frankfurt.
The second phase of quadrupleling Track on the Main-Weser-Bahn between Bad Vilbel and Friedberg. With that the S6 will have dedicated tracks the whole way to its Terminus in Friedberg.
Furthermore the Nordmainische S-Bahn is starting construction on the only underground station of this entirely new line, the above ground part will start a bit later.
W video, as always, worst question of the day, the first clip of the (7) at Junction Blvd what is that from?
You missed the two SMART extensions in the Bay Area. One is opening in 2025 the other will break ground, and they just opened a new infill station a couple of days ago.
Also, the ValleyLink Blue line BART extension is supposed to start construction some time this year.
Subway Lines we'd like to see in 2025
The Second Avenue Tunnel to upper Broadway
The Interborough Express hopefully as light metro with a future upgrade to Division A interchangability
And the most needed of all:
Queenslink! 😊
one you left out is Rome's Line C finally reaching the Coliseum. It's been ten years in the making and, alongside the other station being opened, Porta Metronia, will add two new museum-stations to the line.
Is there any plans for the new Thesonoliki metro in Greece
Santiago Monorail will be opening this year, right in the backyard of the U.S.
Panama City Line 3 (A monorail) will also be opening, and it’ll cross the Panama Canal.
I'd like to add that Dublin, (Republic of Ireland) Metrolink automated Metro will likely receive planning permission.
Contracts on the approved DART+ West (To Maynooth) and DART+ South West (To Hazelhatch & Celbridge) electrification projects to expand the "Dublin Area Rapid Transit" network will likely be awarded in 2025 for work to start next year.
DART+ Northern to Drogheda will likely receive permission by the end of the year. Following full testing and commissioning of the new trains, 2026 will see the operation of the new Battery Electric Hybrid trains operating on the line under power to the current DART terminus at Malahide, and under battery power all the way to new charging points at the Drogheda fleet management yard.
The Kansas City Streetcar will open the Main Street Extension, more than doubling its trackage and taking streetcars south all the way to the university
Kansas City
@bahnspotterEU Jeez that was a dumb mistake, ty for pointing it out
You missed the Abidjan metro, in Ivory Coast west Africa.
"the beginning of passenger service [was] originally expected in 2022-2023, but has since been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to at least 2028."
I hope you're correct - but I cannot imagine the Portal Bridge is operable in any way tbis year. I be surprised if trains traverse the bridge before 2027...
What about South America 😭😭
4:22 There is also gonna be a third branch to the Montreal Trudeau Airport.
That is 2027, I believe.
Why doesnt the mta give queenslink the 100k? Do they not want an easy win?
Probably some sort of Eric Adams interference
mta should be ashamed of itself smh
Obviously Line 5 in Toronto wasn't included, it'll take forever
You still have to keep an eye on other transit projects even if it doesn't happen in this year like the projects, the IBX and the Queens link in NYC which will take some time to build and complete and LA's D line extension still has phase two and three to deal with while the fourth phase is unknown if they'll decide to do it or have the funding for it in the future
Belmont flyover is done like 2022
I am only interested in NYC. Don't tell me about Africa & elsewhere.
Then don't watch videos that cover other cities 🤦♀️