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Latest openings of Metro, Subway or other Urban Rapid Rail Lines all around the world (1999):

Opened	CITY	New line or extension	km	stations
28/Jan/2000	Athens	Lines 2 and 3 Sepolia - Syntagma - Ethniki Amyna	13	14
19/Jan/2000	Nagoya	Meijo Line Ozone - Sunadabashi		2
10/Jan/2000	Tokyo	Tama Monorail (to Tama Center)
1/Jan/2000	Rome	Line A Valle Aurelia - Battistini		3
24/Dec/99	Taipei	Nankang-Panchiao-Line City Hall - Lungshan Temple		9
22/Dec/99	London	Jubilee Line - Westminster station (Line complete)	--	1
19/Dec/99	Berlin	S4 Jungfernheide -Westhafen	3	2
16/Dec/99	Manila	EDSA (Metrostar) Line	16.8	10
15/Dec/99	Mexico	Line B: Buenavista - Villa de Aragón	13	13
11/Dec/99	Moscow	Dubrovka station on Lyublinskaya Line	--	1
7/Dec/99	Inchon	Pakchon - Kyulhyon	1.5	1
5/Dec/99	Bangkok	BTS Skytrain	23	24
3/Dec/99	London	DLR: Cutty Sark station	--	1
27/Nov/99	Nürnberg	U2 Herrenhütte - Flughafen	3.3	2
22/Nov/99	Seoul	Line 2 - Tangsan bridge reopened	1.3	-
20/Nov/99	London	Docklands LR - Lewisham extension (not Cutty Sark)		4
20/Nov/99	London	Jubilee Line: Green Park - Waterloo (not Westminster) and Southwark station		1
11/Nov/99	Taipei	Hsintien Line Kuting - Hsintien	7	8
6/Nov/99	Singapore	Bukit-Panjang LRT (automatic people mover)	7.8	13
28/Oct/99	Shanghai	Line 2	16.4	12
27/Oct/99	Barcelona	Line 4 Via Júlia (formerly Roquetes) - Trinitat Nova	0.6	1
27/Oct/99	Madrid	Line 5 Eugenia de Montijo station	--	1
17/Oct/99	Prague	Hloubetín station on Line B	--	1
7/Oct/99	London	Jubilee Line: London Bridge station	--	1
6/Oct/99	Inchon	Line 1	24.6	22
24/Sept/99	London	Jubilee Line: Waterloo station		1
18/Sept/99	Washington	Green Line central section F.Totten - U Street/C.		2
17/Sept/99	London	Jubilee Line North Greenwich - Bermondsey		3
11/Sept/99	Stuttgart	U7 Ruhbank-Heumaden	4	3
7/Sept/99	Madrid	Line 8 Aeropuerto - Barajas (Pueblo)	1	1
3/Sept/99	St.Petersburg	Station Krestovsky Ostrov on Line 4	--	1
29/Aug/99	Yokohama	Totsuka - Shonandai extension	7.4	5
18/Aug/99	Lille	Line 2 Fort de Mons - Tourcoing Centre	12	16
12/July/99	Paris	EOLE (RER E) Magenta - Haussmann/St.Lazare		2
2/July/99	Seoul	Line 8 Chamshil - Amsa		4
30/June/99	Pusan	Line 2 Somyon - Hop'o	22	20
28/June/99	Guangzhou	Line 1 full length	18	16
26/June/99	Kuala Lumpur	PUTRA Line northern branch		14
21/June/99	Buenos Aires	Line D J. Hernández - Juramento		1
14/June/99	Madrid	L8 - Campo de las Naciones - Aeropuerto/Airport	5.6	1
12/June/99	Los Angeles	Red Line Wilshire/Vermont-Hollywood/Vine	7.4	5
30/May/99	Munich	U2: Innsbrucker Ring - Messestadt Ost	6.6	6
29/May/99	Roma	Line A: Ottaviano - Valle Aurelia		2
29/May/99	Frankfurt	U6 Zoo - Ostbahnhof	0.6	1
20/May/99	Valencia	Line 3 Av. Cid - Mislata-Almassil	2.4	3
14/May/99	London	Jubiliee Line: Stratford - North Greenwich	5	4
19/Apr/99	Cairo	Line 2 extended under Nile River to Cairo University	5	4
7/Apr/99	Madrid	L9 Puerta de Arganda - Arganda del Rey	18	4
29/Mar/99	Madrid	Line 7 Valdezarza - Pitis	4.2	5
March 99	Tehran	Tehran-Karaj-Mehrshahr Express Line	41.5	10
3/Mar/99	Madrid	Line 1: M. Hernández - Congosto	2.4	3
25/Feb/99	Sapporo	Tozai Line Kotoni - Miyanosawa	2.8	3
12/Feb/99	Madrid	Line 7 Canal - Valdezarza	4.6	4
14/Jan/99	St.Petersburg	Line 4 (Orange) - Chkalovskaya - Staraya Derevnya		1

Metro lines opened in 1998

Scheduled to open soon:

	Scheduled	CITY	New line or extension	km	stations
?	1999	Tehran	Line 2 Imam Khomeini Sq - Azadi	10	10
	Spring 2000	Berlin	U2 Vinetastraße - Pankow	1	1

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In 1999 the following cities have metro systems or extensions under construction:

Years show beginning of construction / planned completion

Europe:

Amsterdam (north-south line - 1999/2006)
Athens (lines 2 and 3 /1999)
Barcelona (extension of line 3 (1999/2001)
Bilbao (new line 2 1997/2001-2006)
Brussels (Line 1B extension from Bizet to Erasme Hospital)
Copenhague (line 1)
Dnepropetrovsk (extension of first line into city centre)
Donetsk (first line)
Frankfurt (U4 to Bockenheimer Warte /2000)
Genoa (extension of first line through city centre)
Istanbul (first line phase 1/1999; phase 2 1998/)
Kazan' (first line)
Lille (Line 2 Tourcoing Centre-C.H.Dron /2000)
Lisbon (line A to Sta. Apolónia /2000; Line B Campo Grande - Odivelas 1999/2003)
Lyon (Line B extension south)
Madrid (L-8 Mar de Cristal - N. Ministerios, L-10 Puerta Batán - Alarcón, MetroSur Ring Line)
Milan (Line 3 extension north - 2 stations)
Munich (U1 and U3 west to OEZ)
Naples (Collinare line to city centre)
Paris (line 14 to St. Lazare)
Rennes (first VAL line)
Rome (line A west extension /1999; line B1 Bologna - Conca d'Oro /2005)
Rotterdam (western extension of east-west line - Beneluxlijn)
St. Petersburg (rebuilding of interrupted section on the red line, Line 4 St.Derevnya - Komendantsky Prospekt /2000; Line 5)
Sofia (extension of first line into city centre)
Stuttgart (U7 south)
Thessaloniki (Line 1 VAL 1999/2004)
Torino (First VAL Line - 10km -15 stations Fermi - Porta Nuova, 2005)
Toulouse (VAL line B, extension Line A north to Gramont)
Ufa (Russia) (First line)
Vienna (U3 south to Simmering /2000)
Warsaw (first line extension north)

America:

Bogotá (Line A)(?)
Brasília (first line)
Buenos Aires (Line B, 2 stations)
Ciudad de México (Line B - Villa de Aragón - Ciudad Azteca /2000)
Fortaleza (Brasil) (first line)
Lima (First Line)
Los Angeles (Red line extension to North Hollywood /2000)
Recife (Second line conversion)
Saint Louis (St.Claire extension)
San Francisco (BART to Airport)
San Juan (Puerto Rico) (first line)
Santiago de Chile (Line 5 extension into city centre, /2000)
Sao Paulo (lines 2, 4 and conversion of lines 5, 6, 7)
Toronto (new Sheppard Subway line 1992/2002)
Valencia (Venezuela) (First Line)
Washington (Green line extension south)

Asia:

Ankara
Bangkok
Chelyabinsk (First Line)
Chennai (southern extension of Line 1)
Delhi
Bursa (Turkey) (LR Line with 3km underground section)
Izmir (Turkey) (First line)
Kaohsiung (First line)
Krasnoyarsk (First line)
Kuala Lumpur (Monorail Line)
Mumbai (Bombay) (?)
Nagoya (No.4 line)
Omsk (first line)
Pusan (Line 2 east)
Seoul (Line 6 and Line 7 extension)
Shanghai (Line 2 extensios and Line 3)
Singapore (Bukit-Panjang People Mover /1999; North-East Subway Line 1998/2002)
Taegu (South Korea) (Line 2)
Taipei (Blue and green lines)
Taejon (Korea) (First line)
Tehran (Lines 1 and 2 /1999)
Tokyo (Line 12 and Namboku Line extensions)

Africa:

Cairo (Line 2 to Giza)

Australia:

(?) Information on construction of a metro in these cities is not confirmed!

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