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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]
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.
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.
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 ...
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).
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 ]
On July 30, 2012, the first phase of the Orange Line, which ran from Bachman to Irving Convention Center, opened. As part of the opening, three bus routes were moved from North Irving Transit Center to the future North Lake College station. [5] On December 3, 2012, Orange Line service was extended to North Lake College and Belt Line. [2]