2026 Will be CRITICAL for America's Transit Future. Here's Why.

2025 was a year of chaos in general, and no less so for public transport in the US. There were many more successes than some have led us to believe, but there were also plenty of chaotic changes and struggles to fight through to make our transportation system more suited for the country's needs. 2026 is shaping up to be more of the same, with critical transit projects being completed, more looking to find ways to get started, and even more struggles to be fought over simply the idea of improving mass transport in the first place in certain places. Let's get the year off on the best start, by laying out the projects that are being completed in 2026, and more of the struggles going on around them to take these successes to the next level.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Seattle Link Light Rail 2 Line Lake Washington Connection
5:15 LAX Airport People Mover
8:01 LA Metro D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Cienega
10:47 LA Metro Has a Spine for the Sepulveda Line
13:01 OC Streetcar Opening
14:32 Colorado Mountain Rail Project
18:00 Portal North Bridge Opening
20:06 Lackawanna Cutoff Part 1 Opening
22:12 Amtrak Gold Runner and ACE Expansion
24:50 The Part where I praise California
26:26 KC Streetcar Riverfront Extension
28:25 St. Louis Metrolink Extension to MidAmerica
30:28 Salt Lake City S-Line Streetcar Extension
32:39 TEXRail extension to Medical District?
36:10 South Shore Line Monon Corridor
38:00 Metro-North Hudson Line to Albany
40:05 The Amtrak Airos Arrive
46:40 Conclusion, and Let's Make Transit Great!

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