inmotion the official newsletter of A PUBLICATION OF DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT P.O. BOX 660163 DALLAS, TX 75266-0163 Nevin Grinnell Address Service Requested Vice President Chief Marketing Officer Morgan Lyons Media Relations Director Elena Rohweder Manager, Communications Lyle Miller Senior Manager, Creative Services Denise Johnson Manager, Customer Information / Production Customer Information (routes & schedules) 214.979.1111 Connect with DART DART Administrative Offices 214.749.3278 Karen Ptacek Donn Coburn Communications Representatives Thomas Santana Ron Gray Designers Joe Swift Photography Photographer To subscribe or to update or cancel your subscription to Inmotion, contact Tracy Cantu. 214.749.2543 DART: Live and Online Get updates about DART’s latest developments through DOWNTOWN ROWLETT STATION our Speakers Bureau. Invite a DART representative to talk to your organization about our family of transit services. 214.749.2524 Transit Education offers A special thanks to our partners for their generous support safety education programs for schoolchildren and special presentations and tours for seniors. 214.749.2582 Visit DART.org for the online Trip Planner, route schedules, maps, construction updates and more. BLUE LINE LinKS TO Rowlett McDonald’s ROWLETT McDonald’s 5220 N. MacArthur Irving 132-011-712TS DART Current and Future Services to 2014 A-Train to Denton (operated by DCTA) NW PLANO PARK & RIDE PLANO PARKER ROAD JACK HATCHELL TRANSIT CTR. DOWNTOWN PLANO Presiden t G e sh Turnpike orge Bu BUSH TURNPIKE NORTH CARROLLTON/FRANKFORD Dallas North Tollway GALATYN PARK TRINITY MILLS RICHARDSON T RANSIT ADDISON ARAPAHO CENTER DOWNTOWN CARROLLTON ADDISON TRANSIT CTR. CARROLLTON IS A SPRING VALLEY FARMERS BRANCH DOWNTOWN FARMERS BRANCH GARLAND GARLAND AMILY LBJ/CENTRAL DOWNTOWN F DFW ROWLETT FOREST LANE FOREST/JUPITER 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 HUBBARD BURBANK HIGHLAND TRANSIT CTR. PARK White AFFa ir 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 President PEAR VICTORY ST. PAUL BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER George Bush AKARD WEST END Turnpike to I-20 L FAIR PARK /ARTS DISTRICT UNION STATION MLK, Jr. Tr r in it y Rive CONVENTION CENTER LAWNVIEW CEDARS HATCHER n Dec. 3, DART opens the Downtown Rowlett all accessible by DART. And folks in Rowlett can reach DFW COCKRELL HILL TRE to Fort Worth 8TH & CORINTH Station and two more Orange Line stations in Irving International Airport by transit and avoid construction on nearly DALLAS ZOO LAKE JUNE at North Lake College and Belt Line Road. These every expressway needed to drive there. TYLER/VERNON MORRELL OO HURST/BELL HAMPTON cities gain an important tie to the rest of the service area, ILLINOIS RICHLAND HILLS WESTMORELAND BUCKNER illustrating that the benefits of membership extend far beyond The multimodal transit system makes it possible to live, work and municipal boundaries. play throughout much of the Dallas area without owning a vehicle KIEST or by using one much less. The real return on investment – less FORT WORTH ITC VA MEDICAL CENTER As I see it, being a DART city means that “you’re all in the stress, more productive commutes, cleaner air and peace of T&P STATION FORT WORTH RED BIRD LEDBETTER family.” Nearly three decades ago, 13 cities linked together mind – cannot be quantified in monetary terms. TRANSIT CTR. to create regional transportation options beyond driving and Downtown Dallas highways. From that success, DART built the first light rail In the next few years, we will complete the current rail expansion, VICTORY DEEP and commuter rail systems in the Southwestern United States. replace our entire bus fleet and launch a modern streetcar line. ELLUM WEST GLENN Today, these communities are interconnected by a vast network Our family of cities should be proud of the transit system that we TRANSFER PEARL/ARTS DISTRICT HEIGHTS of rail, bus and paratransit routes, and HOV lanes. have built together and use it to the fullest. Like a family, we are ST. PAUL GLENN HEIGHTS PARK & RIDE Rail System Legend WEST END all connected. AKARD EAST Currently Operating TRANSFER ROSA PARKS PLAZA Just think: Residents of Irving are a train ride from their careers DART Rail Red Line in Plano. A Park Cities couple can drive to Mockingbird Station Yours very truly, DART Rail Blue Line UNION STATION and take the light rail to see a favorite play at Richardson’s CONVENTION DART Rail Green Line Eisemann Center. CENTER DART Rail Orange Line DART Rail Orange Line (Selected Weekday Trips Rush Hour Only) Nursing students at downtown Dallas’ El Centro College can HOV System Legend Trinity Railway Express (TRE) John Carter Danish DCTA A-train take core academic classes at any DCCCD campus – they’re HOV Lane DART Chairman of the Board HOV Lane Under Design/Construction (Outside DART service area – no DART funding) DART Rail Orange Line Future HOV Lane Belt Line to DFW opens December 2014. Future HOV Lane “DART: Your preferred choice of transportation for now and in the future...” (No DART Funding) inside inside Rail Rejuvenates With the opening of the Blue Line extension to downtown Fiscal Year 2013 Rowlett, the lakefront city just got more connected to the Board of Directors 2 Rowlett John Carter Danish rest of the Dallas area. Chairman (Irving) New stations in Rowlett and Irving amplify the natural Robert W. Strauss Art on the Vice Chairman 6 Line features of the surrounding area and create gateways to (Dallas) the communities they serve. Faye Wilkins Secretary (Plano, Farmers Branch) Smaller Buses The new fleet includes 123 shuttle-sized buses that are better sized for lower ridership routes and neighborhood Richard Carrizales 8 are a Big Deal Assistant Secretary streets, plus cost less to operate and maintain. (Dallas) Jim Adams (Dallas) Safety and security of the DART System improves with On Board and Michael T. Cheney On Alert increased police patrols, closed-circuit cameras at stations (Garland) 10 and on vehicles, and the ability to report problems by Randall D. Chrisman text message. (Carrollton, Irving) Jerry Christian (Dallas) Short DFW Airport travelers get a bus connection to the Orange Line. Rail attracts new development to Plano Mark C. Enoch 15 Trips (Garland, Rowlett, and Carrollton downtowns. Next-train signs improve Glenn Heights) customer communications. DART employees show Pamela Dunlop Gates their artistic side. (Dallas) Gary Slagel (Richardson, University Park, Addison, Highland Park) William Tsao (Dallas) William Velasco, II (Dallas, Cockrell Hill) cover: Paul N. Wageman Just outside the Downtown Rowlett Station, Main Street is filled (Plano) with old-town charm and pedestrian-friendly amenities, from a picturesque roundabout to landscaping, street lamps, planters Claude R. Williams, Jr. (Dallas) and park benches. 3 Light rail provides new access to an array of destinations for Rowlett residents. Employment, entertainment, hospitals and higher education are just a train ride away. 4 Mark Enoch, Rowlett’s former mayor and a representative on the DART Board of Directors since 1997, has championed the Blue Line RAIL REJUVENatES extension to his city. citizens of the 13 cities in the service Priming Main Street for ROWLE TTarea,” said Mark Enoch, DART Development Board member and a former mayor of Blue Line catalyzes Main Street renewal Rowlett. “We know that transit adds Rowlett’s community and civic leaders Opening Dec. 3, this 4.5-mile, to the quality of our lives by giving us are optimistic that DART will pay off $360 million extension from time to do more important things than in increased visitors and commercial Downtown Garland Station brings sit in traffic.” growth, both of which are critical to improved connectivity and growth broadening the city’s tax base. Already, opportunities to the quiet bedroom Until the arrival of DART Rail, numerous businesses, retail stores community. Along with a recent commuters took express bus service and restaurants line nearby Lakeview extension of the President George from the Rowlett Park & Ride to Parkway, and FLEX route buses serving Bush Turnpike, the station marks the downtown Dallas or drove to the the Blue Line make it easier than ever beginning of a new era for Rowlett. Downtown Garland Station to ride the for people to live, work and shop here. train. Now, that park and ride lot is a “Past leaders of Rowlett made the vibrant rail station with more than But it’s the Main Street side of the big decision – one that we don’t take 750 parking spaces. station – where the city’s downtown lightly even today – to become a DART and municipal buildings reside – that city to ensure that our citizens have “As gas prices stay high and are likely produces the most enthusiastic response. eading east through Rowlett, transportation options beyond local roads to rise, transit becomes more appealing. and highways,” said Rowlett Mayor Todd Plus DART is safe, clean and quick, “The arrival of the Blue Line motivated Hboth Main Street and Lakeview Gottel. “You’ve never seen a city more which makes it attractive to ride,” us to create the downtown we never Parkway bring you to the shores excited to get their DART station.” Gottel said. had,” said City Manager Lynda Humble. The Blue Line bypasses congested, Rowlett also is central to an A task force of residents, community of scenic Lake Ray Hubbard – the wreck-prone Interstate 30, giving riders interconnected, steadily growing area leaders, property and business owners an alternative to stressful commutes that includes Garland, Rockwall, and developers has spent more than a recreational gem that forms much of and rising gas prices.