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Irving Convention Center station is a DART light rail station in the Las Colinas development of Irving, Texas.It serves the Orange Line. [3] The station is located on a frontage road of Northwest Highway (Spur 348) and serves the development's Convention District, including the Irving Convention Center and Toyota Music Factory.
DART was created on August 13, 1983, as a regional replacement for the DTS (Although the name "Dallas Area Rapid Transit" was intended to reflect the new agency's coverage of the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, its acronym DART almost immediately evoked comparisons to San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system, known as BART).
Belt Line station was opened on December 3, 2012 as the western terminus of the Orange Line's first expansion. Bus route 500 was established to connect the station to DFW Airport. [2] At opening, Belt Line participated in DART's Fair Share Parking program, which charged a daily parking fee for patrons that did not live in DART member cities. [5]
However, in April 2010, DART opted to defer the station due to a lack of surrounding development. In 2017, telecom company Verizon Communications announced plans for Hidden Ridge, a $1 billion mixed-use development project in the land surrounding its Las Colinas office. Carpenter Ranch station, located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Verizon ...
Las Colinas Urban Center station is a DART light rail station in the Las Colinas development of Irving, Texas.It serves the Orange Line. [1] A connection with the Las Colinas APT used to serve the businesses and residents of the Las Colinas Urban Center.
Construction of the 5-mile (8.0 km), $397 million Orange Line segment from Belt Line to the airport began in 2011. [8] [9] $120 million of the segment's funding came from a federal TIFIA loan. [10] DART constructed the rail lines into the new station, while DFW Airport designed and constructed the station itself.
In 1990, DART purchased 19.2 acres of land for the new East Plano Transit Center. The land was adjacent to a disused Southern Pacific rail corridor that DART was studying for a then-proposed light rail system. [9] The transit center, built at a $7.5 million cost, opened on April 20, 1993. [2]
Park Lane is a DART light rail station in northern Dallas, Texas. The elevated station is located at the intersection of Park Lane and Greenville Avenue, about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) east of North Central Expressway (US 75). The station serves the Red Line and Orange Line. [1]