Events January 9 January – Shenyang Metro Line 2 opened. 14 January – The Marina Bay Extension of the Circle MRT Line in Singapore opens for service. February 4 February – National Express East Anglia's passenger service franchise expires; from the following day services are taken over by Abellio Greater Anglia. 22 February – Buenos Aires rail disaster: A buffer stop collision at Once railway station kills 51. March 3 March – Szczekociny rail crash: A head-on collision in Poland kills 16. 25 March – The north shore connector extension of the Pittsburgh Light Rail system opens. April 13 April – The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area) grants the Downtown San Francisco Extension top priority for federal funding. This would extend the Caltrain line from the current terminus at 4th & King (close to AT&T Park) to Downtown San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center and be used by California High-Speed Rail as its terminal. the extension does not have a planned completion. 23 April – Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line extension to Wickford Junction (MBTA station) opens. 28 April – Open-access operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori begins operation of its .italo high-speed trains. – The first phase of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Expo Line opens for service. The line runs from downtown LA to Culver City. The next phase of the project will extend the line to Santa Monica. – Suzhou Metro opens. 30 April – Oakton-Skokie station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Yellow Line opens. May 27 May – GoRail starts operating on Tallinn–Saint Petersburg line after a four-year hiatus. June 13 June – The Manchester Metrolink light rail system opens the first phase of its Oldham & Rochdale Line over the former Oldham Loop Line to a temporary terminus at Oldham Mumps. 15 June – The Sacramento Regional Transit Light Rail Green Line phase 1 to River District opens. A future extension is planned to extend this line to the Sacramento International Airport but is not expected to be completed until sometime during the 2020s. 28 June – Kunming Metro opens. July 1 July – Tianjin Metro Line 2 opens. 28 July – Construction was completed and service commencing on the AirportLink line of the Miami Metrorail, extending service to Miami International Airport via the Miami Intermodal Center August 27 August – Construction is completed on the north east extension of Calgary Alberta's light rail