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LA Is Putting Floating Solar and an Iron Battery on a Reservoir
LADWP approved a pilot at Encino Reservoir with a 5 MW floating solar array on 10 acres of water and a 5 MW iron flow battery to store the power.
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Dubai Just Started Testing Driverless Pods That Run on Their Own Skinny Roads
Dubai's RTA kicked off a four-week trial of Glydways on Bluewaters Island. Small self-driving electric pods ride on narrow private lanes, link up less than a second apart, and are pitched to move 20,000 people an hour.
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Chennai's New Metro Line Opens Today, With a Double Decker Section and Driverless Trains
The first 15 km stretch of Chennai Metro Phase 2 opened Sunday, from Poonamallee to Vadapalani with 11 stations and a 3.7 km double decker viaduct. The trains are built to run with no driver, but staff stay onboard until mid 2027.
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Turkey's High-Speed Rail Now Runs to the EU's Doorstep
Turkey opened a 153 km high-speed rail section on Oct. 9 that runs from west of Istanbul to Kapıkule on the Bulgarian border. Once the full line is done, the trip from Istanbul's edge to the border drops from four hours to 1.5.
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NJ Transit Starts the Final Switch to the New Portal North Bridge on Sunday
Starting Sunday, Oct. 11, NJ Transit and Amtrak begin five weeks of reduced service to move the last Northeast Corridor track off the 116-year-old Portal Bridge and onto the new $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge. Regular schedules are expected back Nov. 15.
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The First New Train Tunnel Under the Hudson in 116 Years Is Now Being Dug
The Gateway Development Commission says the first tunnel boring machine for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project has started mining in North Bergen, N.J., on schedule. A second machine follows in the coming weeks, and the pair should reach the Weehawken and Hoboken shaft in about a year.
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HS2 Just Joined Up Its Mile-Long Wendover Green Tunnel
On Oct. 5, crews lifted the last of 2,740 precast concrete segments into place on HS2's Wendover green tunnel in Buckinghamshire, linking the two halves for the first time. Next comes backfill, a road over the top, and landscaping.
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India's Bullet Train Just Finished Its Sabarmati River Bridge
NHSRCL completed a 480-metre, 36-metre-tall bridge over the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor. Gujarat now has 18 of 21 river bridges done.
InfrastructureBoring
Vegas Loop Is Stretching Toward the Airport
Boring Company’s Vegas Loop: 14 stations and 4M+ passengers today, aiming for 28 by year-end, entitled for 123 / 68 miles — plus a September south push on Paradise Road. Toy or transit? Throughput decides.
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Two Prufrocks Are Chewing Nashville Limestone Right Now
Sept. 7–8 drone footage shows Prufrock-MB1 and MB2 tunneling at once through 10,000+ psi Music City limestone. FOX17: MB3 due this month; company targets partial ops in 2027. What’s dug vs approved vs still a slide.
InfrastructureCompute
NEOM’s Breaking Ground on a 1.5 GW AI City
HUMAIN and DataVolt started construction on a 100 MW slice of a 360 MW first phase at Oxagon — a planned 1.5 GW AI data center campus aimed at exporting compute.
SpaceInfrastructure
Launch Memes Get Clicks. Space Plumbing Wins the Decade.
Rockets get the hype. Ground stations, debris rules, and refueling decide who compounds.