![]() Shut Up Fool Awards- Moni's Back In Da Ville Edition.It also makes me hopeful that with our own METRORail Purple Line being just 5.5 miles from its current Palm Center termination point to Hobby Airport, funding can be found (hint hint) to extend it and connect at least one of our airports to the rail system like Dallas has done for DFW.īut nice to know that the next time I fly into DFW, I can take the train into downtown and anywhere else along the DART Rail network. That's great news for all the peeps who travel to Dallas to attend conferences. It opened for revenue service on August 18. ![]() The extension and the DFW Airport Station in Terminal A was finally completed four months early and under budget. In my conversations with this year's BTAC attendees, they lamented the fact it wasn't open, and were hopeful that when they returned to Dallas for the 2015 edition of the conference, the DART light rail line would be open for revenue service from DFW. Construction had started on the DFW Airport station that was scheduled to open in November. I was well aware of DART's Orange Line being extended toward DFW Airport through Irving. Those stations are on that Bryan Avenue-Pacific St corridor in which all four DART light rail lines currently converge in their run through downtown Dallas.Įven better, the St Paul station has a 7-Eleven nearby so I can get my Slurpee fix before I shell out the $2.50 for my northbound DART train ticket to Lovers Lane. When I get off the Megabus from H-town at the DART East Olive Street transit center downtown, I'm a short two block walk from the St. The Doubletree Campbell Center hotel that hosts BTAC is near the Lovers Lane station on the northern end of the Orange and Red Lines. I finally got a chance to ride the DART Orange and Red Line trains during the recent Black Trans Advocacy Conference back in late April and May. Īs a matter of fact, to build the initial 7.5 mile segment of the METRORail Red Line that opened ten years ago, METRO had to use its own money to do so John Culberson (R-TX), and the Harris County Republican Party have been fighting METRO tooth and nail to keep them from getting the federal funding to build light rail here in Houston, DART has been gleefully taking the federal money METRO hasn't been able to and began getting busy assembling the largest light-rail network in the United States with 90 miles (137 km) of track, a commuter rail line that terminates in Denton, TX with another rail line to Ft Worth. While former congresscritter Tom Delay, Rep. Normally as a proud Houstonian, I'm usually hating on anything Dallas related with a passion, but for once you're going to see me write something that praises Dallas.Īnd naw, hell ain't freezing over and we aren't experiencing blizzard conditions in H-town right now. December 30 – January 1, 2024: DART Blue LineĭART holiday buses Three DART holiday buses will travel on various bus routes throughout the DART service area through the end of the year.As you TransGriot readers know, I'm an unabashed mass transit supporter, especially when that transit system in question contains a rail component.December 28 – December 29: DART Red Line. ![]() December 26 – December 27: DART Green Line.December 17 – December 25: DART Orange Line.December 10 – December 16: DART Green Line.November 24 – December 2: DART Blue Line. ![]() The holiday trains will make regularly scheduled stops at each station along their route each evening. Their goal is to spread holiday cheer for riders and bystanders.ĭART Holiday Train Two DART holiday trains will travel throughout DART’s 700-mile service area beginning on Friday, November 24. These are buses and trains that they've wrapped with a festive theme, plus hundreds of twinkling holiday lights. ![]() Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is getting on board with the holidays, with the return of DART holiday trains and buses. ![]()
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