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DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT Progress Report FY 2016 BUILT TODAY. FOR TOMORROW. 132-005-117 Cover Pgs Progress Report FY2016.indd 1 2/21/17 2:36 PM DART CURRENT AND FUTURE SERVICES A-train to Denton (operated by DCTA) NW PLANO PARK & RIDE PLANO PARKER ROAD JACK HATCHELL DOWNTOWN PLANO TRANSIT CTR. SHILOH ROAD Presiden t G e sh Turnpike orge Bu CITYLINE/BUSH NORTH CARROLLTON/FRANKFORD Dallas North Tollway GALATYN PARK TRINITY MILLS ADDISON RICHARDSON ARAPAHO CENTER DOWNTOWN CARROLLTON ADDISON CARROLLTON TRANSIT CTR. SPRING VALLEY FARMERS BRANCH DOWNTOWN FARMERS BRANCH GARLAND GARLAND LBJ/CENTRAL DFW DOWNTOWN ROWLETT AIRPORT FOREST LANE FOREST/JUPITER Terminal A ROYAL LANE LBJ/SKILLMAN DFW BELT LINE ROWLETT WALNUT LAKE HIGHLANDS WALNUT HILL/DENTON HILL IRVING CONVENTION CENTER Lake Ray PARK LANE Hubbard NORTH LAKE LAS COLINAS S. GARLAND COLLEGE URBAN CENTER TRANSIT CTR. UNIVERSITY WHITE ROCK BACHMAN LOVERS UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS PARK LANE LAKE RAY LOVE HIGHLAND HUBBARD FIELD White TRANSIT CTR. BURBANK PARK MOCKINGBIRD Rock INWOOD/LOVE FIELD Lake IRVING SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL DISTRICT/ PARKLAND DALLAS To Fort Worth CENTREPORT/ WEST IRVING DOWNTOWN IRVING/ MEDICAL/ MARKET CENTER DFW AIRPORT HERITAGE CROSSING MARKET CENTER CITYPLACE/UPTOWN DEEP ELLUM PEARL/ARTS DISTRICT VICTORY ST. PAUL BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AKARD WEST END FAIR PARK UNION STATION MLK, JR. Tr r in it y Rive CONVENTION CENTER LAWNVIEW CEDARS HATCHER COCKRELL HILL 8TH & CORINTH DALLAS ZOO LAKE JUNE TRE to Fort Worth TYLER/VERNON MORRELL HAMPTON ILLINOIS WESTMORELAND BUCKNER BELL RICHLAND HILLS KIEST VA MEDICAL CENTER RED BIRD LEDBETTER FORT WORTH ITC TRANSIT CTR. T&P STATION FORT WORTH CAMP WISDOM UNT DALLAS Downtown Dallas Rail System Legend GLENN VICTORY HEIGHTS Currently Operating DEEP GLENN HEIGHTS PARK & RIDE DART Rail Red Line ELLUM WEST DART Rail Blue Line TRANSFER PEARL/ARTS DISTRICT DART Rail Green Line ST. PAUL DART Rail Orange Line WEST END DART Rail Orange Line AKARD EAST TRANSFER (Selected Weekday Trips Rush Hour Only) ROSA PARKS PLAZA Trinity Railway Express (TRE) DCTA A-train UNION STATION UNION STATION M-Line Trolley CONVENTION CENTER Dallas Streetcar Under Design/Construction Cotton Belt 132-005-117 Cover Pgs Progress Report FY2016.indd 2 2/21/17 2:36 PM DART Board Contents of Directors Planning Efforts Focus on the Future 2 Faye Moses Wilkins Plano, Farmers Branch Cotton Belt Will Connect Cities, Airport 3 Chair Second Rail Alignment is Needed Downtown 4 Richard Carrizales Dallas Vice Chair Platform Extensions Will Increase Capacity by 33% 5 Gary Slagel Dallas Streetcar Rolls into Bishop Arts District 5 Richardson, University Park, Addison, Highland Park Secretary Partnerships Expand Transportation Options 6 Jerry Christian Transit Drives Local Economic Boom 7 Dallas Assistant Secretary Rail Fuels Transit-Oriented Development 8 Sue Bauman Dallas New Stations Make College More Accessible 10 Mark C. Enoch Garland, Rowlett, Riders Influence Bus Route Changes 11 Glenn Heights Pamela Dunlop Gates Technology Engages Customers, Improves Dallas Travel Experience 12 Tim Hayden Light Rail Expands in Southern Dallas 14 Carrollton, Irving Jonathan R. Kelly Agencies Partner to Implement Positive Train Control 15 Garland Patrick Kennedy Where Public Transportation Goes, Community Grows 16 Dallas Michele Wong Krause Dallas On the Cover: Amanda Moreno In October, DART opened a three-mile extension of the Blue Line Dallas from a renovated Ledbetter Station to UNT Dallas Station, expanding transportation options in southern Dallas and improving access to the Rick Stopfer growing university campus. Irving William Velasco II Dallas, Cockrell Hill Paul N. Wageman Plano 1 132-005-117 Inside Pgs Progress Report FY2016 Final2.indd 1 2/23/17 4:15 PM Planning Efforts Focus on the Future Financial and system plans outline growth and maintenance (Above) With the late-2016 arrival of 46 new coaches, which will be used primarily on Express routes, DART has replaced its entire fleet of buses with vehicles fueled by compressed natural gas. (Left) DART prioritizes repairs to the existing infrastructure, such as the replacement of worn-out light rail tracks in Downtown Dallas. For more than 30 years, DART has Planning and prioritizing projects The 20-Year Financial Plan includes over combined vision and prudence to become The agency is updating its long-range transit $2.6 billion devoted to State of Good Repair one of the largest and fastest-growing public system plan. Since DART’s adoption of the asset maintenance and replacement, which transit systems in the country. DART’s 2030 Transit System Plan in 2006, the constitutes almost 49 percent of the total Transit System Plan and 20-Year Financial region has continued to experience rapid 20-year capital expenditures. Plan provide the framework by which the growth. agency balances the scope of projects with DART worked diligently with the Federal available funding. The 2040 Plan will focus on sustaining Transit Administration, other key the DART System for current and future transportation authorities and the American DART updates its financial plan every year. customers and provide a blueprint for Public Transportation Association to craft The current Fiscal Year 2017 20-Year projects and programs through 2040. national guidelines for transit asset Financial Plan identifies funding for several Since regional growth trends and mobility management practices. FTA now has key priorities for the agency, including: needs extend beyond the DART Service published its Transit Asset Management • Implementation of bus service Area, the 2040 Plan also will identify Final Rule, based substantially on the best changes based on the Comprehensive regional opportunities to expand transit practices DART has employed. Operations Analysis and mobility choices. • Platform extensions on the The agency is developing a formal Red and Blue lines Maintaining a state of good repair transit asset management plan and • Expediting development of DART has practiced key elements of transit replacing its maintenance and project regional rail service on the asset management since it began in 1983. management systems. Cotton Belt rail corridor Board financial standards mandate that • Construction of D2: Dallas DART balance the expenses of operations, Central Business District Second asset replacement and capital expansion with Light Rail Alignment available revenues in the 20-Year Financial Plan. The financial standards also call for an Learn more: asset condition assessment every five years. DART.org/financialinformation DART.org/2040 2 132-005-117 Inside Pgs Progress Report FY2016 Final2.indd 2 2/23/17 4:15 PM Cotton Belt Will Connect Cities, Airport Rail service would the 26-mile eastern portion of the corridor, “We are very excited about the Cotton Belt but because of the 2008-09 recession, the project,” Addison Mayor Todd Meier said. bridge region agency deferred the project to after 2030. “It will help take our economic development boom to the next level, connecting us even The shortest distance between two points Cities and other stakeholders along the more completely to our region and bringing now is authorized for development. Cotton Belt asked DART to expedite the us the transit part of our transit-oriented project. By identifying regional funding development for Addison Circle.” Rail riders traveling between Plano, sources and reducing the scope, the agency Richardson, Addison, Carrollton, North has an opportunity to accelerate the schedule DART is pursuing a loan from the Dallas and Dallas/Fort Worth International by more than 10 years. The plan is Federal Railroad Administration’s Railroad Airport will be able to bypass the trip contingent upon federal funding and Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing through Downtown Dallas with completion environmental clearance. (RRIF) program to finance the project. of the Cotton Belt regional rail line, now If the agency can obtain a RRIF loan, it scheduled to open in 2022. The east-west-oriented Cotton Belt will would come at a substantially lower interest intersect stations along the Red, Green and rate than conventional tax-exempt debt. DART owns 54 miles of right of way from Orange lines and provide long-awaited rail north Fort Worth to downtown Wylie, service to the town of Addison. Travelers which originally was owned by the St. Louis on the Fort Worth Transportation Southwestern Railway and commonly known Authority’s TEX Rail commuter line will Learn more: as the Cotton Belt. The agency has long be able to connect to DART’s Cotton Belt DART.org/cottonbelt planned to develop regional rail service along at DFW Airport. y PLANO To Denton (A-train operated by DCTA) wa oll h T rt No President Ge o SHILOH ROAD s rg urnpike 12TH STREET e Bush T Dalla CITYLINE/BUSH RENNER VILLAGE UTD/SYNERGY PARK PRESTON ROAD Cotton Belt Line KNOLL TRAIL RICHARDSON DOWNTOWN CARROLLTON ADDISON TRANSIT CENTER DFW NORTH NORTH LAKE CARROLLTON (DALLAS) Cypress Waters Alternative ADDISON FARMERS GARLAND BRANCH TERMINAL B TERMINAL A DOWNTOWN ROWLETT To Fort Worth (TEX Rail to be operated by FWTA) DFW ROWLETT UNIVERSITY LOVE PARK LAKE RAY FIELD HUBBARD HIGHLAND TRANSIT CTR. PARK IRVING DALLAS To Fort Worth DART Rail System Proposed Cotton Belt PPP DEEP ELLUM DART is developing plans to expedite regional rail service on the VICTORY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Cotton Belt DARTPEARL OrangeFAIR PARKLine DCTA A-train eastern portion of its right of way along the Cotton Belt corridor. UNION STATION ST. PAUL MLK, Jr. AlternativeCONVENTION Alignment CENTER DARTAKARD Green Line LAWNVIEWTrinity Rail Express WEST END TEX Rail CEDARS DART Red LineHATCHER Interface Station COCKRELL HILL DART Blue Line Potential Cotton Belt Stations 8TH & CORINTH DALLAS ZOO LAKE JUNE TYLER/VERNON MORRELL HAMPTON ILLINOIS 3 WESTMORELAND BUCKNER KIEST 132-005-117 Inside Pgs Progress Report FY2016 Final2.indd 3 VA MEDICAL CENTER 2/23/17 4:15 PM RED BIRD LEDBETTER TRANSIT CTR. Rail System Legend GLENN HEIGHTS Currently Operating GLENN HEIGHTS PARK & RIDE DART Rail Red Line DART Rail Blue Line DART Rail Green Line - Phase I Victory to MLK, Jr.