Dallas' Light Rail & Commuter Rail Network Evolution
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- From its beginning in 1996, Dallas' light rail and commuter rail network has grown to 84 stations, spanning 175 miles (282 kilometres). This animated video takes you through the timeline of when new stations were opened, forming the DART, DCTA, and Trinity Metro network that we know today.
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Also on the orange, it's Hidden Ridge, not Hidden Valley.
Thanks for catching that! I messed up the narration, but it’s shown correctly on the map.
@@VanishingUnderground It's okay. You must really love ranch dressing
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Especially by american city standards, it's really impressive just how quickly the DFW area has developed its rapid transit
Sure but it’s still useless to the vast majority of people that live in DFW. Unless you live right next to the stations and they take you close enough to your final destination, you probably will never use them.
They've also built out their highway network & overdeveloped the land even faster though. Their transit development doesn't mean much when the entire area has invested far more into car infrastructure and paved shit into oblivion.
While it looks impressive, stretched out to a map of the metro it’s pathetic.
@@Pantsinabucket that's because it's TWO metro areas that just sprawled into each other back in the 70s.
@@29Texan and? Almost every major city did that before the 70s. Brooklyn was a city near-equal in size to NYC before being incorporated, and the other boroughs were their own counties. Chicago annexed Hyde Park, Lake View, and however many other areas.
As a former Rail Operator for DART this a very nice video. A few things, Lake Highlands Station is between White Rock And LBJ/Skillman, also there is talks of a new subway under downtown. There are two rail yards (this is for those who want to see the trains moving around in the yard. The first yard is called CROF (Central rail Operating Facility), it the old SP yard and it's off I'30 & Second Ave, the other yard is NWROF (Northwest Rail Operating Facility) located in Northwest Dallas off Denton Rd, you can see lots of movement in both yards. Also for those who like speed, you should stand behind the operating cab and watch the signals and how fast the train goes! Also experience to operate a train!
Unfortunately, the D2 subway is indefinitely postponed so DART can focus more of its resources on finishing the Silver regional rail line. I'm not frustrated though; I actually think it's good to focus on one big project at a time, so then the transit agency won't have to divide its money and resources.
I grew up in the northern suburbs of Dallas, and moved away just as the red line extensions to Plano were completed. I've been back visiting family regularly since, and every single time I'm blown away by just how much Dallas continues to build out DART (along with all ToD happening at various stops). Absolutely shames many other comparable cities in the country.
Damark rivers, street name bamboo
I was just in Georgia and Tennessee and realized I have been so spoiled as far as public transportation goes
@@pizzaofataco there is no way to say Dallas public transportation spoils anyone haha
@Scott Luther newer cities; even in TX until a recent referendum Austin was doing a lot less relative to its size compared to Dallas I feel.
@@harktischris austin could have had a decent light rail network by now if it werent for the nimbys
Left out the Dallas Streetcar and the McKinney Ave trolley. Other than the future silver line, a brand new subway will be built through downtown called the D2 subway with 4 new stations :)
I'll be dead when D2 happens. Also, the Deep Ellum Business community starts fussing and doesn't want the new rail line to resurface at the Deep Ellum station. Now DART is considering merging the line underground with the red/blue line just south of City Place station. This news just broke about two months ago
@@thebootieloverD2 breaks ground in 2022.
Take Deep Ellum out the picture, Because they've already decide to hook it to RedLine
@@TheAnomics1 I know but now it want be above ground as was originally plan in the deep ellum area. All underground to City Place Station.
Those were not included as they run in mixed traffic
There is or was a monorail near the Dallas State Fair Ground
As a resident of a suburb of Dallas and a transit enthusiast, this was the perfect vid for me. Loved it!
More train lines are needed in Dallas, instead of all the new highways being built. Traffic is horrible there! A circular route will help with commuting times for many.
Dallas gets a lot of heat for being so car-centric, and for sure it is, but this is some truly impressive rail network growth, especially for a US city, in less than 30 years. Other Texas cities should be looking at Dallas's network in envy.
Of course it is impressive, but no one rides IT.
The DFW area is a good model for sunbelt transit. It shows that even a sprawling, stroad-filled landscape can be served by a variety of transit modes. Hear that, Las Vegas?
@@crowmob-yo6ry 100% agreed, and the Silver Line is going to be an excellent example of how good a circulator line can be. I think the next 100 years or so are going to look really impressive for transit in the DFW region. I love that they're really going all in on the Stadler DMUs, they're really cool trains. I bet they'll look into acquiring some varietal of the Stadler FLRT for core DART services when their existing fleet is ready for replacement (albeit electric powered like the existing system)
"This is Dallas" Shows picture of Fort Worth
Also worth noting that there's discussions about extending the DCTA A-Train to Downtown Carrollton to connect with the proposed Silver Line, which is becoming a probability since DART is in discussions with DCTA to build their Silver Line rail yard in conjunction with DCTA's A-Train yard located between Hebron and Old Town stations in Lewisville. The original proposal had DART using the existing TRE yard in Irving as a maintenance base for the Silver Line, as I recall.
Also discussions a while back about extending TexRail down to TCU
Damn Dallas is doing the damn thing 😍!!!
Extending the A Train to Carrollton is a must if they want to get any more decent ridership. I hadn’t heard they were in discussions about sharing maintenance base. Good news if they can work it.
The A-Train does go to Carrollton - to Trinity Mills not Downtown Carrollton, which is a raised station. Silver Line will be mostly surface so connecting the A-Train to it there makes a lot of sense and will finally bring the A-Train riders to a more connecting station on DART.
Good to hear about sharing yards too! They both use Stadler railsets so maybe they can share talent.
@@csmlyly5736 I should have clarified that I was referring to Downtown Carrollton station, but yes, that's a good point. The Silver Line trains are virtually the same as Trinity Metro's TEXRail as opposed to DCTA's trains (which are virtually the same used by Austin's Capital Metro).
Actually, your opening shot of the TRE locomotive when you say "This is Dallas Texas" is really a shot of downtown Fort Worth.
good catch lmao
...a.k.a. For Worthless.
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Uncalled for.
@@29Texan it’s true though.
As a Dallas native I approve this message lol
I wish dfw especially fort worth built more of these train lines throughout the city. I visited Philadelphia once and their system is amazing. Wish our metro area incorporated more of these throughout the area so that we don't use the car as often.
@6:04 being that I used to live in Dallas, I was so happy when the extension of the orange line was open to the airport. Granted it took more time riding the train versus driving, it was a lot cheaper. Especially when it came to parking and the parking prices. Plus it was extremely convenient when your plane left from terminal A.
As a non-american, i always enjoy your videos. Its really crazy how different and also just how late most systems in the US developed, compared to Europe. I would love to see a video about the planned but never-finished Cincinnati system, tho. I think they never built anything except a little streetcar there. Would be really interesting i think.
@Moon Shine the Continental US is of similar size to Europe
the street car in Cincinnati is sadly not used to its full potential unless there is a major event that spans most of the downtown area. They are looking at studies to take it across the river into northern Kentucky as well as trying to figure out how to get the cars up a steep hill to service the nearby major university and medical centers for the city. I work in Cincinnati and go to school there as well so I'd love to see the city branch out the street car, however I do not see it happening.
Cars are a big part of American culture. Oil and gas companies don’t like public transportation because it hurts their business and that’s a huge industry here. Cars also give a sense of individuality which is a huge part of the American mindset.
There are large cities that you can go car free in, for example most of the New England area is pretty easy to navigate without a car or at least minimal car use.
But somewhere like Texas? Absolutely not. Too much oil and gas here.
It’s possible to build these things but there’s just not a lot of interest. I have played with the idea of moving to Europe. I had family friends move to Italy and they love it there. If I can find a job out there and safely move I think I would.
Great video, Im stoked that you made one about my hometown! Can I recommend a few extra items? Dallas has two other smaller rail lines- a modern streetcar that travels across the Trinity River from downtown (The Oak Cliff Street Car) and an old Trolley that goes to uptown called the M-Line.
Dallas also had a MASSIVE streetcar system back in the day called the Dallas Interurban that was later torn up and replaced by busses. There are still remnants of it in South Dallas and the DART headquarters is in the old trolley repair building. Would you be receptive on doing a future video about our old system?
The astounding success of DART light rail had proven the naysayers wrong. They thought that Dallas and Texas being very auto-centric, and that would be a very tall order, getting Dallasites and Texans to ride the light rail instead of driving. What surprised me was how fast DART network had expanded from scratch as compared to other cities in the US.
Have you been living on the moon? Dallas people and the folks around Dallas drive autos, no one rides the "train".
@@thomaswaynewardridership is going up. Plus because of predatory auto pricing, it's only helping DARTs ridership.
I really hope that DART will eventually expand the Red and Orange lines northward into Frisco, Allen, and/or McKinney. Collin County has grown so much in the past couple of decades that having only 2 (soon to be 4) stations for the entire county just doesn't make practical sense. This is especially true considering how many residents of those cities commute to Dallas daily. I really think having DART expand northward would ease a lot of the traffic problems that people complain about up in the suburbs.
Good luck with frisco lmao
Even if they did expand in the north Dallas suburbs more they’d still be useless to the vast majority of people that live there. Building 1 station for the entirety of a suburb is just impractical, everyone would still have to drive just to even get there. DART would only add on to the amount of empty stations it has outside of the downtown area.
Public transit is just unserviceable in the American style suburbs due to the way they were built and designed due to their low density and sparse nature.
Public transit is meant for higher density areas with lots of people to be transported to another area with lots of people to ease congestion. You can’t do that if you area is so low in denser that everyone has to drive a car just to even get to the transit station.
Nice video. I’ve been waiting for this. I grew up in Dallas/Fort Worth and have been riding DART since Downtown Carrollton Station opened.
Great video on the largest light rail system in North America. Also a cautionary tale of building transit in low density areas.
what's the caution? anywhere with enough demand for multiple lanes of traffic should get transit too.
Ridership on this system is rather low considering it's size. It's the largest light rail system in the country by track mileage but only sixth by ridership.
Many people fail to realize America’s urban planning and design. It’s ridership is so low because it’s useless to the vast majority of people that live in DFW.
People don’t realize American cities like DFW are incredibly spread out to the size of small countries with low density Euclidean zoning urban and suburban sprawl.
DFW is essentially a gigantic suburb, and public transit just can’t serve the American suburbs as they aren’t urban enough to be able to enjoy that amenity.
Imagine walking 3 or more miles to your nearest DART station just to go through many stops and still have to do many more miles of walking to get to your final destination. That’s a waste of time and it’s simply something that Americans don’t have to waste.
@@blackhole9961 Eh, I can walk to two different stations in 5 minutes. The issue is that for most things its actually cheaper to drive. Parking is free most places - its $6 for a RT on DART. Its worth it if I am going someplace like the airport - where parking ISN'T free.
I wish transit was more viable here, I actually used to work a block from Gallatyn station and could literally ride a straight shot. But that shot was parallel to Central Expressway, and a gallon of gas for $2-3 is cheaper than 2 tickets. Even monthly passes only work if you travel 18 Round trips or more a month. I did it a few times, the walk across my corp parking lot was as far as the station to the lot... Of course my NEXT job was in Frisco...
If you live near a station its not that bad - especially if you take a bicycle or e-scoot. (or skateboard) If I didn't own a motorcycle and a car it would be perfectly viable... since I work from home these days.
@@blackhole9961 Impressive on paper, not practical in real world use best sums up DFW's light rail. Take Houston's system for example, despite having a smaller system, it's ridership per mile blows DART's figures out of the water. 2,500 riders per track mile for Houston verses
You did a great job with this video! I rode on the DART Rail on the opening weekend in June of 1996 (I was 8 at the time), and it's amazing to see how it's evolved since then.
I hope they reconsider and build the Knox/Henderson station. So much development is going on there and it would make sense to connect it.
I've heard that they are thinking of doing that to a few stations.
@@ffamosobrian with the 2045 rail plan
Yay, finally talking about my home.
So why isn't the Dallas Street Car and Mckinney Ave Streetcar not mentioned?
I really have enjoyed your postings- they are easy to follow and I was happy to see your Fort Worth/Dallas video. TEXRail has a planned extension 1 stop south of the T&P Station to the medical district. According to Trinity Metro's website, it's expected to go into revenue service in 2026.
I currently live in the area, and I'm impressed that it's managed to make transit work even in a sprawling, stroad-filled sunbelt city. Can't wait for the new Silver regional rail line!
Great job! Thank you very much. I continue to be impressed with how quickly the DART RAIL system expanded and continues to expand - reflecting how much the people of Dallas embraced it. So much good information in this video. I'm a big fan of the London Underground-like use of colors and legend for the system map.
You missed the 2 streetcar lines but I understand why the D2 subway wasnt included. The western portion is basically ready to go but the eastern portion will likely get a complete redo to better integrate with the Deep Ellum neighborhood and the I-345 reconstruction. Also basically, except for the downtown streetcar connection; this is the completed system for the foreseeable future.
Dallas has the largest light rail system in America. Thus making it a true interurban streetcar system.
That hardly anyone uses.
yeah it still has a LONG way to go tho because 97% of people drive their cars in DFW still.
@@1999ToyotaSupra You always have to start at 0 my dude. Can't just change the whole city of dallas to use public transit overnight
@@Taykorjg but it’s been here for over 20 years and still fails at acceptable ridership. For a metropolitan area with this many people it should really have more riders considering how big dart is and how many stations it has.
This tells us that the problem isn’t a lack of public transit, it’s an urban design city planning situation. DART rails receive about 200 thousand riders per day.
Most of everyone would still have to drive just to get to these stations unless you lived right next to them, not tp mention you are basically stuck without a car after you get off a transit station.
DFW is just way too spread out with low density suburban sprawl to make it happen.
great lightrail system. i use it all the time. prefer it to chicago, nyc or sf. cleaner, less croweded, newer, great parking (free), very convenient. but i'm from the north so am acclimated and seek out public transportation all the time
The KNOX station should be built. I never understood why DART does most of its Rail and construction work during commuter hours. I'm from Atlanta and MARTA always schedule platform work and rail constructions after 10 pm on weekdays and all day on weekends with single tracking. We can live with a few adjustments until the job gets done. With all the new growth, housing development, and jobs in the KNOX area, there needs to be a rail station. Also, the M-Line needs to be extended to the area too.
Knox-Henderson still doesn't want the rail line there, otherwise it would have been done by now. I remember a lot of "well, I'm not racist but..." comments coming out from older people when the A-Train first opened into Denton. Prejudiced people who sadly associate the rail lines with lower income POC from South Dallas and don't want a train station near them regardless of the transit development $ it would bring.
My friend is a DART engineer, he told me that the station actually exists! It’s completely built with surface access (just a grate on the street for now) they just put up a fake wall in front of the platforms so when the trains pass through you don’t see anything. So it’s highly possible that it could be opened IF the surrounding community were to want it.
@@pikabear3790 that was then, theirs people who want it now but it's only to late because it is a heck ton of money to do it now 😂
agreed. better access to area that has too many cars already
Also to add TexRail is adding a few stations west of T&P. In 2023 TRE will open Trinity Lakes Station near the Richland Hills Station and will permanently close that station down. DCTA Atrain extending to Downtown Carrollton. A new rail line from Downtown Irving to Frisco connecting to a infill station on the orange line and Downtown Carrollton
TRE is getting a new station and closing one? I hadn't heard of this until now.
@@bazis98 they closing down Richland Hills Station and opening Trinity Lakes Station roughly 1 mile east of it. From what I heard is because Richland Hills left Trinity Metro
@@jadeng6191 Seems like a waste of infrastructure. It's brand new and I'm certain Trinity Metro can run it without going through this hassle
@@jadeng6191 I thought it was because of the new planned development.
@@MarloSoBalJr RH voted to leave Trinity Metro so they will stop soon. A huge TOD is planned for the area just east of the 121/820 merge though. That’s in Fort Worth city limits.
FIRST OF ALL THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE VIDEO EVER. SECONDLY I VIEW THIS PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM AS THE NYCT OF THE SOUTH. THIRDLY THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR SHARING.
Me thinks that someone had Hidden Valley Ranch on their mind. 😂 😂 😂
As a DFW resident, I wish Mesquite, Rockwall, Grand Prairie, Allen, and McKinney should be Dart member cities.
Mesquite and Grand Prairie especially since they border Dallas.
Yeah no matter what it never made sense how they have not got at least a shuttle or something
Add Wylie and Sachse to that list also.
Mesquite voted against DART back in the day. The city lives to regret that decision that was made til this day.
Yeah, it just completely skips over a huge spot in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth. Makes no sense. Arlington has NO public transport.
I work at UTD Dallas and see the guys working on the new platform there. UTD/Senergy. Cool to see it day by day but didn't know it was going to be the Silver Line.
Thank you Zack your cover of the Dallas light rail system was awesome 👍
Outside of DT Dallas one would hardly know this exist in the Metroplex. The Metroplex could still use about 875 miles of tracks if not more. The Metroplex is just a massive sprawl and cities like Arlington aren't helping any by there reluctance to join. 175 miles is still impressive considering it is only 25 years old and in a state where politicians are oil money rich.
Whenever I meet people who say they never notice DART or rode on it once I always get surprised like how? 😂 really is wierd to think how theirs different types of mindsets like that, I hope when the public transportation gets even more widespread around here then what it already is more people will be more use to it and focus on it more and come together to make the whole metroplex feel kinda like one by working together (in some way at least lol)
@@micahbradley7024 because DART is useless to the vast majority of people in DFW and does not serve them.
The stations here in the north Dallas suburbs are always empty and doesn’t see people until morning and evening rush hour.
If pretty much everyone lives in suburban areas that are so spread out with low density sprawl that you need a car just to get to your nearest grocery store do you honestly think the train is going to serve them?
DART can’t take you everywhere DFW is just too spread out. Not to mention it’s slow with all its due to the shear size of the metroplex.
@@blackhole9961 maybe not a train, but some form of shuttle or buses would be a nice start, don't see why that can't happen anytime soon or soon-ish
I live in the southern end of Denton county and I on occasion use the A-train. I haven’t really used DART all that much (been in the green line only once) but glad to now know the background of the transit system around where I have been living for nearly 15 years now. Very nice video
Another great video for me to travel with not moving from home ! Thank you Zach !
1:13 initial commuter service was using VIA RDC cars that was rebuilt in Montreal.
Awe TEXRail never got their candy stripe marking and instead had solid red like the Dart red line lol. Good video though, you definitely have covered most the extensions. TEXRail in a few years is supposed to expand to the FTW medical district.
There is also a planned extension for Texrail
Next up I’m guessing will be a redo of San Diego now that the extension has opened.
I understand the A-Train from Denton is very small, but I wish there was more connections to other areas such as DFW airport. Also it would be so awesome if the A-Train ran from Denton to winstar casino
Always impeccably presented! 'A+'
Except he made a big error in his opening shot when he said "this is Dallas Texas" is really a shot of Fort Worth Texas and not Dallas.
What is your standard for showing future projects in your videos? I was surprised you didn't mention the D2 subway
My guess is that he's referring to projects that are confirmed to be in progress. There's no definitive decision on the D2 subway proposal as of yet, from what I've been reading.
@@CreightonRabs I believe that is his criteria as well. While lots of extensions and expansions are proposed in Dallas and Fort Worth none are actually committed aside from the Silver Line. D2 will get built most likely, however the alignment is still not finalized, which makes visualizing it difficult
Its because of the Deep Ellum side of the project that is keeping the project from starting construction
Also, Addison, TX pitched a fit about Silver Line, saying they’d leave DART if they didn’t build silver line first before D2. That combined with Deep Ellum will make this a lot harder for DART.
I been waiting for this
Been looking forward to this for months. Thanks!
ah yes, the fort worth skyline in the background and calling it dallas.. great stuff
I ride Dart everyday.. cool video
Is it true that not enough people use Dart?
The red line should be in place of the Dallas North Toll road with different rail line connections with east and west rail lines connections.
The people in Preston Hollow would shit a brick if anyone attempted to build a rail line along the DNT. Look into how long it took LA to get a subway built under Beverly Hills. Jerry Jones and George W Bush do not want a public rail line near their neighborhood.
@@pikabear3790 I said the red line should have been built instead of DNT all the way to Lagacy.
@@thebootielover I agree. And even 40 years ago no one in Preston Hollow would have allowed that railway. Some day I hope the City of Dallas can tunnel a subway under the entire thing and end it in Frisco, but that will probably happen 70 years from now.
@@pikabear3790 Yup and both of us would be dead by then.
@@thebootielover exactly
0:12 ahh thats where I wait for the green line after I get out of jail
Dallas is doing an awesome job expanding its rail system especially considering that it is a city in Texas, one of the states most concerned about conserving car culture and infrastructure. Houston has a very poor network of rails in comparison, but massive destructive projects are approved all the time to expand already massive highways. It’s really a shame that city officials will not put as much effort into public transportation as in Dallas.
Nobody really uses it.
@@blackhole9961 Bro alot of people use it..what are you talking about
70.3million riders per year.
@@TheAnomics1 that’s very low considering it’s size
@@TheAnomics1 it really doesn’t serve the vast majority of people that live in DFW. Most of everyone still uses the car.
@@TheAnomics1 look at Berlin’s ridership a metro area with less people.
Thank you so much for this info. From someone in Dallas
Can't believe the idiots that blocked having their very own subway station... They eventually changed their mind but now they can't build it easily without shutting down the service for months.
But I can be done and it should be. I never understood why DART does most of its Rail and construction work during commuters hours. I'm from Atlanta and MARTA always schedule platform and rail constructions after 10 pm on weekdays and all day on weekends with single tracking. We can live with a few adjustments until the job gets done. With all the new growth housing and jobs in KNOX area, there needs to be rail station. Also the M-Line needs to be extended to the area.
And they probably DEAD now.
They should've built a Line from Uptown to galleria via NDTollway alignment
Actually, the red line should be in place of the Dallas North Tollroad with different rail line connections all the way to Legacy.
Yeah, the DNT use to be a rail line. You can see how it lines up with existing rail lines. Highland Park had a station even. Park Cities would fight tooth and nail if there were a rail line built there though. A line up the DNT/Preston Road corridor would be an obvious great idea though. All the way up to Plano/Legacy and even Frisco.
@@saxmanb777 Yeah the Plano, Frisco, and Dallas area would develop so much. But idk if West Plano and Frisco would be cool with that either sadly
Houston take note. Adding lanes to I-10 isn't solving anything.
Hello! Could you show us how you make your maps? I am interested in making my own for fun.
You should to Portland’s MAX and Streetcar!
"this is dallas texas" *shows fort worth*
All dallas needs now is a bus or rail to AT&T Stadium.
I'm legally blind and I loved watching this video. I will have to say that because I'm legally blind I would suggest that when you put these maps together like you did it would be a good idea to make the different modes of travel such as light rail or bus or commuter rail different patterns of lines such as solid or round dotted or triangle shaped dots etc. The other suggestion would be to zoom in to the areas where you are starting from and then you can zoom out while you draw the line and then zoom back in for just a moment to show the areas where the line starts and ends?
there are some tracks extending north from parker road but theyve never been used to my knowledg
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Isn't TEXRail going to be extended south along the Chisholm Trail Parkway?
Yes and according to the new 2045 transportation map it'll extend West, south and north I believe
The only confirmed proposal so far is for a southward extension toward All Saints Hospital in the near Southside of Fort Worth, and that project is in the early planning stages. I haven't heard anything definitive about any extensions further south.
We got one in northern California called Bart started in the late 1960 and slowly run to San Jose by 2024.
Actually a pretty impressive network for Dallas-Fort Worth.
With a low ridership for its size
My Favorite Part Here Is The Trinity Railway Express
I really like your vidos. Such a fan of city rails, I highly recommend you to come to Guadalajara, Mexico. It currently has two lines of light rail (one totally underground by the way) and one of metro, mostly elevated and just a 3 mi tunnel through the downtown. It would be very interesting to know your point of view about the system. Greetings!
Fort Worth and Dallas have two different bus systems only sharing the TRE between the two cities. Dart Is operated in Dallas and the Trinity metro in fort worth.
Need a new line that runs parallel to DNT from Downtown Dallas to Frisco (Main St.)
My mother, brothers and I were some of the first to ride this system. I was 16, brothers 2 years younger, each. We were living in Denton, and didn't want to attend all of a political convention that Dad was a part of, so we toured Downtown Dallas instead. They happened to be having the grand opening of this that day, so we did it on impulse. We were also able to get a free limo ride back to the convention, a blessing to an RN with foot problems.
DART and the cities of Sachse(right next to Garland with the Downtown Garland Station), Wylie, Murphy and maybe Lavon should have a conversation about allowing bus service to extend into those cities. It's middle-class people with homes and businesses but there's still plenty of people that could use the DART bus and rail service
Then from a rail perspective it seems that with cooperation from the city of Allen DART should be able to expand northward some.
So the Tandy Subway gets totally ignored? Sheesh!
I tried to use the DART system. I really did. Even when I lived a block away from a rail station it just wasn't very useful. It seems the system is designed to take commuters from the suburbs to downtown. A lot of people are employed downtown of course but a lot of people are not, too. Imagine living in Carrollton and working somewhere in Plano. Currently you have to take the train all the way downtown and all the way back up again. It takes forever. And you'd better work very close to a station because Plano is not pedestrian friendly at all.
For a while I lived right next to Cedars station. I wanted to go to Target, which is near Cityplace. Even though it's not far, it sure is slow because it goes through downtown with all those at-grade lines that cross streets. When I lived there, there was no service to deep ellum. There was TRE service to the airport but no light rail. The rail line to Love Field stops nowhere near the terminals. If you want to go anywhere at night, forget it.
Anyway you just can't get around the city on the thing. If the bus service were better, maybe it would work. Crosstown trains would help. I'm not sure if this silver line is the answer in that department. On the map it doesn't even look like it has a transfer to the green line.
As far as the region goes., Fort Worth is now pretty close to the size Dallas was when it started its light rail system. All they have is that one line. I don't believe there are plans for anything else. Arlington isn't part of the system at all and from the looks of it, never will be. There isn't even a single bus line in Arlington, a city of 400,000 right between two cities of a million+ each. It's ridiculous.
I lived in Dallas in 2014~2016. DART was super useful and actually fun to use. I moved there again in 2021-2022, they made changes to the system and, in my opinion, ruined everything. A lot of routes were removed and it just no longer became helpful. Plus they decreased the police presence on the train routes and it has definitely made the system less fun. I miss when it was an actually useful system.
I ride the blue line to work everyday. Usually it's a nice peaceful ride.
Also Lake Highlands station is between White Rock and LBJ/Skillman
Why why can't Jacksonville (Fl) have this kind of service!!
When are you going to do Philadelphia?
Compare and contrast connectivity of the DFW consolidated metro are to the Baltimore -Washington consolidated metro area the San Francisco- Oakland -San Jose consolidated metro areas.
Could you do philadelphia soon? That's a city I'd love to see you tackle
Should be out early in the new year
Me over hear waiting for the city I'm from to even think about a Light rail and commuter rail system🧍♀️
Awesome video
Portland OR is next
Correction, 96 stations & growing.
Whoa that was Super Awesome 😎
How is it that a city built on dirty oil could embrace green clean transit?
Love the video, but you left out a lot, the TexRail train is the Trinity Metro commuter line, not DART, so that'd be Fort Worth. Fort Worth used to have a privately owned and operated subway line that had a few stops in downtown (Leonard M&O Subway), Fort Worth also had streetcars before the gas industry shut them all down. Dallas has 2 different streetcar systems with I believe 3 or 4 lines, and all are free to ride.
The US Hwy 75 will also be I-45 as well
That's where I live!! Dallas Commune anyone?
I love this to get from the mid cities to mavs games. So easy
all that Evolution and they still cant get drivers to actually show up to stops.
Why isn’t there a train stop in the west Dallas neighborhood?
He's making videos again!
Lol the opening scene *Picture of Ft. Worth* "This is Dallas, Texas".
Oh this is going to be terrible, I can't wait
I love it
DFW has 7.6 million people as of 2021.
Technically 8million if you go by CSA
I usually align the population given to the transit service area, which is why it’s a bit less than the metro population. For this video, I used the populations of Collin, Denton, Tarrant, and Dallas counties. More info in the description.
New technological infrastructure has been kept from cities for decades...
I'm planning to move to Dallas, can somebody please tell me how good is Dart System?
What area is better to live close to the any line; also is safe to ride public mass transit, thank you
I’m a daily commuter for ten years. This year has been the worst with People smoking and a lot of homeless people using it for sleeping , restroom and panhandling. The DART Employee don,t check tickets and the cops just tell the homeless to wake up. The train is very filthy with the smell of urine. I guess this is the new norm.
It's best to live near the MOCKINGBIRD STATION(Blue, Red, Orange Line🚇) & LOVERS LANE STATION(Red & Orange Line🚇) lots of Apartment's, lots of Resturants, Grocery Stores, a gym etc, plus it's only 10 minute ride to Downtown Dallas🚇🌇😀👌
Unless you live within walking distance of the station AND your final destination is also within walking distance, it’s absolutely useless.
Slow compared to just driving
And you need a car to get to and from the station generally.
@KayC Tacy nothing can really be done about “walkability” considering 98% of the Dallas area is suburbia but very spread out.
@Lorey Taylor I agree with you. I don’t have a car and I use DART every day and I don’t see people sleeping in the cars or the smell of urine. There are the exemptions of course but like the word implies “exemptions” are rare.
good one!
What up…….Vanishers (people who enjoys vanishing underground)
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