![]() ![]() Birmingham: Creation of 16 km Xpress BRT route, which includes some dedicated bus lanes.Extension of the 4.5 km extension of the Overground to Barking Riverside.Opening of Elizabeth Line regional rail central segment, a 28 km route, mostly in subway, through the center of the city.Birmingham: 1.3 km extension of the West Midlands Metro light rail system through the centre city.Creation of F4 funicular system, a 1 km line.8 km extension of M4 to Asian-side airport.Bursa: Creation of 8 km T2 tramway line.Valencia: Creation of L10 tramway, 5 km. ![]() Warsaw: Extension of M2 metro line west and east, totaling 6 km.Mexico: 18 km extension of Mexibus Linea 1 bus rapid transit line in the northern suburbs.Guadalajara: Creation of 41.5 km Mi Macro Periferico bus rapid transit line, a circumferential route around the city. ![]() Port Louis: 10 km extension of the Metro Express light rail system to the south.Luxembourg: Extension of T1 tramway by 1.2 km to the south.Haifa: Creation of Rakavlit aerial tram line (4 km).Milan: Opening of the first phase of automated M4 light metro, 5.5 km from the airport into the city.Athens: Extension of metro line 3 by 3 km.Toulouse: Creation of 3 km Teleo aerial tram line.Rennes: Creation of new 13 km Line B automated light metro.Creation of 19 km Tramway 13 Express, a new circumferential line on the west side of the region.M12 extension 1.9 km north to Aubervilliers.Helsinki: 7 km extension of the M1 metro line.Creation of 72 km Cairo Light Rail system (really a metro system) heading east into the new capital area.Line 3 metro extension west to Kit Kat (4 km).Odense: Creation of 14 km first phase of the Letbane tramway system.Montreal: Creation of 11 km SRB Pie-IX bus rapid transit route through the east side of the city.Baku: 2 km Purple Line metro extension from Avtovagzal to Khojasan.Of these, the countries with the largest increases in kilometers were the United States (196 kilometers) Egypt (77 kilometers) Mexico (60 kilometers) France (39 kilometers) and the United Kingdom (34 kilometers). Overall, 517 kilometers of new fixed-guideway urban transit services opened in 2022 across the countries covered by the Transit Explorer database. New transit investments completed in 2022 (It also includes some intercity rail systems.) These are the geographies for which I provide details about transit line openings below. Transit Explorernow includes about 29,200 urban transit stations and about 6,700 urban transit lines (covering 78,000 kilometers). The Transit Explorer database now includes all fixed–guideway urban transit systems (meaning rail and bus rapid transit) across North America, South America, Africa, and nine Western European countries, plus metro systems throughout Europe and in parts of the Middle East. London’s Crossrail project opened in 2022, providing new cross-city connections across the capital. On separate posts, I analyzed trends in transit investments around the world and examined accessibility to transit stations in the US versus Canada, England, and France. This year, I leveraged data assembled in the Transit Explorer database to identify which projects opened in 2022, which are planned for opening in 2023, and which will be under construction this year-for a later opening date. And Honolulu, Gebze, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, and Thessaloniki will get their first metro services. ![]() Toronto’s Eglinton light rail line will connect the city crosstown. And much more is planned for 2023: Finally, Long Island Rail Road service will reach the sub-sub-sub-basement of Grand Central Terminal. Similar reception greeted new rail and bus lines opening in Athens, Cairo, Guadalajara, Helsinki, Paris, and dozens of other cities around the world. Though they took years to be completed, they were greeted enthusiastically by riders and political officials content to bring better service to more people. Last year, three lines Americans have been waiting on for decades-the Green Line extension in Boston, the Crenshaw Line in Los Angeles, and the Silver Line to Dulles Airport outside Washington-finally opened. ![]()
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