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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]
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).
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 ...
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.
Orange County is a county located in the very southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Texas, sharing a boundary with Louisiana, within the Golden Triangle of Texas. As of the 2020 census , its population was 84,808. [ 1 ]
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.
DART operates a bus route, dubbed Love Link, which connects the station to the airport's passenger terminal. Dallas's other major airport, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport , is also located on the Orange Line; a trip between Inwood/Love Field and the DFW Airport station takes approximately 39 minutes.
North Irving Transit Center is a bus-only station located along Northwest Highway (Spur 348) in the Las Colinas neighborhood of Irving, Texas ().The transit center is a ten-minute walk from DART's Irving Convention Center light rail station, with a pedestrian walkway under Northwest Highway connecting the two.