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Central line trains at Epping Underground Station

28.08.2026

Central Line Cable Theft Disrupts Epping–Loughton

Conceptual rendering of a future Ontario Line train

28.08.2026

Ontario Line trains face uncertainty over tariff costs

Te Waihorotiu Station entrance in central Auckland before City Rail Link passenger services begin

25.08.2026

Final City Rail Link emergency exercise before opening

Central line trains at Epping Underground Station

28.08.2026

Central Line Cable Theft Disrupts Epping–Loughton

Central line cable theft near Theydon Bois disrupted London Underground services between Epping and Loughton, affecting thousands of passengers after trackside equipment was damaged overnight.
Conceptual rendering of a future Ontario Line train

28.08.2026

Ontario Line trains face uncertainty over tariff costs

Ontario Line trains ordered by the provincial government could become more expensive if Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.
Te Waihorotiu Station entrance in central Auckland before City Rail Link passenger services begin

25.08.2026

Final City Rail Link emergency exercise before opening

NEW ZEALAND: Auckland Transport says one final City Rail Link emergency exercise is scheduled in underground stations and tunnels during the week of August 24, before passenger services begin on September 13.
STM Azur train at Beaubien station on Montreal Metro’s Orange Line

24.08.2026

Montreal Metro’s 60th Anniversary Gets Four Song Maps

CANADA: Montreal Metro’s 60th anniversary carries a different kind of musical tribute than its 50th. Where the 2016 celebrations centered on a single day of live performances, MUSIQC and the STM built four interactive song maps linking 82 francophone songs to stations across the network, ahead of the anniversary date on Oct.
Réseau express métropolitain train at Brossard station in Quebec

20.08.2026

Three Redesigns Later, East Montréal Still Has No Line

CANADA: Montréal's mayor has called for reviving the REM de l'Est, four years after the original rapid transit project was cancelled and Quebec reimbursed CDPQ Infra about C$94 million for its planning work.
Platform edge barriers installed at a New York City subway station

20.08.2026

NYC Subway Platform Barriers Covered 158 of 472 Stations

USA: A 72-year-old man pushed onto the tracks at Rockefeller Center on Aug. 19 climbed back to the platform using a ladder without touching the third rail or being struck by a train.
LAX Automated People Mover train testing on the elevated guideway over Century Boulevard

17.08.2026

LAX’s 99%-Finished Train Has a Junk Bond Problem

USA: Every rail car for LAX's long-delayed airport train has been built and is already being tested — but the $1. 2 billion in bonds financing the project just got pushed deeper into junk territory, a warning sign that has little to do with construction and everything to do with an escalating dispute between the airport and its contractor.
CTA Tests Portable VR Simulator for Train Operators

16.08.2026

CTA Pilots a Portable VR Simulator for Rail Crews

USA: The Chicago Transit Authority has a hard problem to solve: how do you let train operators practice for a brake fault, a signal failure or a snowstorm without waiting for one to actually happen on a live train? CTA's answer is a portable virtual-reality simulator now heading into a one-year pilot.
Aerial view of the elevated CTA Green Line Austin station structure in Chicago

16.08.2026

CTA’s Austin Station Gets First Upgrade Since 1962

USA: A Chicago Green Line station that opened in 1899 and hadn't been touched since 1962 now has an elevator, an escalator and a wheelchair ramp — and with it, the Chicago Transit Authority has crossed the 75% mark for system-wide accessibility.
BART riders waiting on a platform as a train arrives at San Francisco International Airport station

16.08.2026

BART Board Responds to Grand Jury Oversight Report

USA: A civil grand jury looked past BART's well-documented budget gap and found something narrower but just as telling — the transit agency's own oversight bodies don't answer to each other the way BART's governing documents say they should.
Entrance to Victoria Underground station in London

14.08.2026

BTP’s First London Underground Facial Recognition Deployment: 33,545 Estimated Faces, No Alerts

UK: British Transport Police has completed its first live facial recognition deployment on the London Underground at Victoria, scanning an estimated 33,545 faces over 6.
Budapest M2 metro disruption lasted nearly 90 minutes after a wild boar entered Kossuth Lajos tér station and reached the tracks.

12.08.2026

Wild Boar Disrupts Budapest M2 Metro for Nearly 90 Minutes

HUNGARY: A wild boar disrupted Budapest’s M2 metro for nearly 90 minutes on 8 August after entering Kossuth Lajos tér station, briefly entering a train and later reaching the tracks.