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Blue Line (DART)
The Blue Line is a light rail line in the system of mass transit in Dallas, Texas (USA), operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. Along with the , it is one of the original modern rail lines in Dallas. Route The southern terminus of the line is currently at UNT Dallas in south Dallas at University Hills Blvd. just south of Camp Wisdom Rd. The line runs north, under the Dallas Convention Center and through downtown Dallas. After leaving Mockingbird, the line diverts to the northeast towards White Rock Lake. The line then goes north and then east into Garland, finally ending in Rowlett. History The rail line was part of the initial launch of DART's light rail service in 1996. At the time, the line only ran from Illinois to Pearl in the northeast corner of downtown. In May 1997, the Blue Line was extended south to Ledbetter and was extended along the Red Line to Mockingbird in September 1999, in preparation for the future extension to Garland. On September 24, 20 ...
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Downtown Rowlett Station
Downtown Rowlett station (previously Rowlett Park and Ride) is a DART light rail station in Rowlett, Texas, Rowlett, Texas. The station is located in Rowlett's historic downtown district, approximately south of Texas State Highway 66, Lakeview Parkway (SH 66) and west of President George Bush Turnpike (SH 190). The station is the northern terminus of the and the main transfer point for Eastern Pilot Dallas Area Rapid Transit#GoLink, GoLink, a microtransit service that serves Rowlett and southeastern Garland, Texas, Garland. The station is also served by the Rockwall, Texas, Rockwall Dial-A-Ride service and a shuttle to Greenville, Texas, Greenville. History Dallas Area Rapid Transit originally serviced the city of Rowlett through a Park and ride, park-and-ride lot at Christian City Church, located about east of the current station at the intersection of Lakeview Parkway and Dalrock Road. DART paid the church $10,000 per year to lease the site on weekdays. In 19 ...
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Rowlett, Texas
Rowlett (, traditionally ) is a city in Dallas and Rockwall Counties in Texas, United States, and an eastern suburb of Dallas. It is a growing, upscale community with nearly $1.5 billion in development in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, located on Lake Ray Hubbard. The population was 62,535 at the 2020 census, and according to 2023 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 66,813. History Rowlett derives its name from Rowlett Creek, which flows into Lake Ray Hubbard and is a major tributary of the east fork of the Trinity River. The creek in turn was named for a waterway running through the property of Daniel Rowlett who moved from Kentucky to Bonham, Texas, in 1835. Daniel, who was a member of the Smoot-Rowlett political family, had no direct dealings with the town that now bears his name. The first post office opened on April 5, 1880, and it was called "Morris" after Postmaster Austin Morris. The town was later renamed "Rowlett". The Dallas a ...
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North Carrollton/Frankford Station
North Carrollton/Frankford station (sometimes shortened to North Carrollton station) is a DART light rail station in Carrollton, Texas that serves as the northern terminus of the . The station is the only DART facility to be located in Denton County and primarily serves as a park-and-ride. The station is adjacent to the right-of-way for the A-train commuter rail line, but the A-train does not stop at North Carrollton/Frankford. Instead, it meets with the Green Line at Trinity Mills, one station to the south. History The station was first proposed in 2000 in a study of the "Northwest Corridor", which included the modern-day Green Line and . In these proposals, the station was simply named "Frankford" after Frankford Road. In 2002, the city of Carrollton passed a resolution proposing names for the three stations in the city. This proposal renamed the Frankford Road station to "North Carrollton" with the specific aim of ensuring that the name "Carrollton" would appear on the ...
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D2 Subway
D2 Subway is a proposed expansion of the DART light rail system in metropolitan Dallas, Texas, in the United States. The subway would run from the existing Victory station, tunneling underground through the city center of downtown Dallas, and connect to the existing tunnel under Cityplace. Four new stations would be built along the new alignment. The Green Line and Orange Line would have routed through the D2 Subway alignment, thereby alleviating pressure along DART's Pacific Avenue and Bryan Avenue corridor, which all four lines currently share, and promoting system-wide growth in total capacity. The project was estimated to cost between $1.7 and $1.9 billion. In 2023, DART removed the D2 Subway from its long-term financial plan, effectively indefinitely delaying the project. History Proposals for a second downtown light rail alignment date back to DART's 1983 Service Plan to accommodate the interlining of multiple future corridors in the DART Service Area. This ...
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Camp Wisdom (DART Station)
Circle Ten Council is a Scouting America chartered council in central north Texas and a portion of Oklahoma. It encompasses all or parts of: Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Morris, Navarro, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Titus, and Van Zandt counties in Texas as well as Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha counties in Oklahoma. Founded in 1913 and based in Dallas, approximately 32,000 youth and 8,600 adults (as of 2024) participate in Scouting through the council each year. The council has four camps - Camp Wisdom, Camp James Ray, Clements Scout Ranch / Camp Trevor Rees-Jones and Camp Constantin / Jack D. Furst Aquatics Base. The Order of the Arrow is represented by Mikanakawa Lodge. History The Scouting movement came to Dallas in 1910, the same year the BSA was created in the United States, and by 1913 several troops were already in existence. In 1923 the council came into possession of ...
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Lake Highlands (DART Station)
Lake Highlands station is a DART light rail station in the Lake Highlands neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. The station serves the . The station is located near the intersection of Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane at the Lake Highlands Town Center development. The station is about south of Lake Highlands High School and the Lake Highlands Recreation Center, both of which it is connected to via the Lake Highlands Trail. , the station has the lowest weekday ridership of all Blue Line stations, with an average of 364 riders. History Plans for the Northeast Corridor, which became the northern leg of the Blue Line, included a station in Lake Highlands under the name Kingsley Road. While concepts were created for the station, it was not built with the rest of the corridor due to traffic capacity issues on White Rock Trail Road (which would house the station entrance), a junior high school being planned nearby, and neighborhood opposition. In 2005, Dallas created a tax increment ...
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Interstate 20 (Texas)
Interstate 20 in Texas (I-20) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, running east from a junction with I-10 east of Kent, Texas, through the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to the Louisiana state line near Waskom, Texas. The original distance of I-20 was from I-10 to the Louisiana state line, reduced to the current distance of with the rerouting of I-20 in the 1980s and 1990s. I-20 is known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. History I-20 in Texas was designated in 1959, and was to replace or run parallel to U.S. Route 80 (US 80). Initial construction began from east to west and as bypass loops around larger cities. By 1967, the highway was complete from the Louisiana state line to the western side of Fort Worth on a route to the south of US 80, with slower construction in the lesser populated areas of West Texas concurrent with US 80. On December 2, 1971, I-20 was rerouted ...
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University Of North Texas At Dallas
The University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) is a public university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Part of the University of North Texas System, the university was founded in 2000 and became an independent institution in 2010. Serving approximately 4,000 students, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs across several disciplines, including education, business, and law. The university's College of Law is located in downtown Dallas. History and development Origins and founding (1997–2000) In 1997, Texas state senator Royce West suggested a feasibility study for a state university in southern Dallas County, an area of Dallas County that is predominantly African American and was then served only by the private Paul Quinn College. The campus, which was to become the first public university within Dallas city limits, was launched at a temporary location in the spring 2000 semester with an enrollment of 204 part-time students, a full-time equiva ...
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Downtown Rowlett (DART Station)
Downtown Rowlett station (previously Rowlett Park and Ride) is a DART light rail station in Rowlett, Texas. The station is located in Rowlett's historic downtown district, approximately south of Lakeview Parkway (SH 66) and west of President George Bush Turnpike (SH 190). The station is the northern terminus of the and the main transfer point for Eastern Pilot GoLink, a microtransit service that serves Rowlett and southeastern Garland. The station is also served by the Rockwall Dial-A-Ride service and a shuttle to Greenville. History Dallas Area Rapid Transit originally serviced the city of Rowlett through a park-and-ride lot at Christian City Church, located about east of the current station at the intersection of Lakeview Parkway and Dalrock Road. DART paid the church $10,000 per year to lease the site on weekdays. In 1997, DART announced the construction of a dedicated park-and-ride lot in downtown Rowlett, which would allow for more streamlined bus rou ...
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Downtown Garland (DART Station)
Downtown Garland station (previously North Garland Transit Center and Garland Central Transit Center) is a DART light rail station located in Garland, Texas. The station is located at the intersection of Fifth Street and Walnut Street in Garland's historic downtown district, two blocks north of the town square. The station serves the . The station is also a major bus transfer facility for the city, with bus routes connecting to the South Garland and Lake Ray Hubbard transit centers. History North Garland Transit Center/Garland Central Transit Center In 1975, the city of Garland announced plans for an express bus service between Garland and Downtown Dallas, which would be operated by the Dallas Transit System. As part of the service, the city built a 312-space park-and-ride lot in downtown Garland at the corner of Fifth and Walnut, which opened on November 3, 1975. The Dallas Transit System was superseded by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) in 1985, which named the lot t ...
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Interstate 635 (Texas)
Interstate 635 (I-635) is a partial loop around Dallas, Texas, in the United States between I-20 in Balch Springs and SH 121 at the north entrance of the DFW Airport in Grapevine. It intersects I-35E at exits 27B and 27C but does not connect with I-35W. I-635 and a part of I-20 are collectively designated as the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway; known locally as the LBJ Freeway, or simply LBJ. The roadway is named after Lyndon B. Johnson, the former U.S. senator from Texas and the 37th vice-president and 36th president of the U.S. Where I-635 ends at I-20, I-20 continues the LBJ Freeway designation heading west. Since the portion of I-20 between Spur 408 to I-635 retains the same names as I-635, the two highways are considered three-quarters of the beltway around Dallas. Together with Spur 408, a portion of Loop 12, and a portion of I-35E, I-635 and I-20 complete the beltway. Route description I-635 begins at an intersection with I-20 in southeas ...
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LBJ/Skillman (DART Station)
LBJ/Skillman station is a DART light rail station in Dallas, Texas. It is located on the western frontage road of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635), approximately southeast of the road's interchange with Skillman Street and Audelia Road. The station serves the . The station is a park-and-ride lot. A bus route connects the station to Dallas College Richland Campus. Artwork In tribute to both I-635 and Lady Bird Johnson's support of highway beautification, LBJ/Skillman station is decorated with a highway theme. The station's columns feature tire tread patterns containing DART's chevron logo, and the station's paving contains a stylized map of I-635. Windscreens contain quotations from Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson stylized to resemble highway signage. A seating area on the northwest corner of the platform is designed to resemble a highway rest area A rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway, expressway, or hi ...
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