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6 months later, here's another update:

The ceremonial first blast for the extension of the Blue subway line from Akalla to Barkarby was this Monday (2019-03-04).
https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyhet...z4UX8MCF6wcKw/ (in Swedish only)

It's only two stations, but will both connect a new built area Barkarbystaden that is fairly well made, urban and dense, and end at the commuter rail station Barkarby (which just got a total make-over with the new subway connection and a new better bus terminal in mind, while being part of a foutracking of the line)

Barkarbystaden:


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Barkarby Station:


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Some sneaky construction of the Blue line southwards extension has been made because it connects directly to an office & residential development:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrW25rjgV_y/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrURj3LgXpL/

What will the non-subway development look like?
It's the red high-rise and the red wavy low-rise plus the other non-industrial buildings along the edges of that same block.

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Construction of Tvärbanan LRT branch to Kista/Helenelund is also under way now.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/st...har-ska-den-ga (in Swedish only, again)
The line will end at Helendelund (commuter rail station) and go by way of the Blue line Subway stations Rissne and Kista (one on each branch of the Blue line) and also have a stop right by Bromma Airport (mostly domestic flights, hopefully will torn down when current contracts end in 2038).

One section of elevated structure was completed earlier since it might be a lot more difficult to build at the same time as the rest of the line due to another construction project right next door.

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A few renders from Region Stockholm (the County Council Authority [Landsting] and County [Län] were merged at newyears into a "Region") of the rest of the line:


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Originally Posted by ertikabo@skyscrapercity

New subway trains tested on the blue line. I like the look! I prefer the color scheme of the old(er) trains, though.

Might be a morbid thought aswell, but I imagine that suicide will be even more traumatising for the drivers now...