DART - Silver Line

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PROJECT PURPOSE

The 26-mile regional rail service traverses three counties (Tarrant, Dallas, and Collin), and seven cities across the northern part of the DART Service Area (Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson and Plano). The Silver Line will provide passenger rail connections that improve mobility, accessibility and system linkages to major employment, population and activity centers in the northern part of the DART Service Area, as well as support sustainable growth, local and regional land-use visions, and economic development. The DART Silver Line will have eight diesel-electric vehicles built by Stadler Inc.

SILVER LINE PROJECT AT A GLANCE*

11,200
Anticipated 2040 Weekday Riders

210,000
Jobs within 1/2 Mile of Corridor

2024
Anticipated Opening Year

10
Regional Rail Stations

58 mins
DFW Airport to Plano

26mi
Through 7 cities

$1,899M
Project Budget ($908M RRIF Loan)

4
Rail Connections (Orange, Green & Red LRT, and TEXRail)

*Source: Cotton Belt Final Environmental Impact Statement/Record of Decision

SERVED BY TWO SILVER LINE STATIONS:
CityLine/Bush Station and UT Dallas Station

CITYLINE/BUSH STATION

1,240 Anticipated Daily Riders in 2040
1,193 Existing Parking Spaces
Travel Time to DFW Airport Terminal B: 48 minutes
Travel Time to Shiloh Road Station in Plano: 8 minutes
Pedestrian Connections: CityLine mixed use development, Cotton Belt Trail, Plano Transit Veloweb
Transit Connections: DART Red Line, DART Orange Line, DART Buses

UT DALLAS STATION

1,205 Anticipated Daily Riders in 2040
Travel Time to DFW Airport Terminal B: 42 minutes
Travel Time to Shiloh Road Station in Plano: 14 minutes
Pedestrian Connections: UT Dallas (29,500 students), apartment and future development, Cotton Belt Trail
Transit Connections: DART Buses

STATION OVERVIEW / POINTS OF INTEREST

Richardson is home of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), which is ranked as the #1 best value public university in Texas on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Value Colleges. Also named as a Best Value College by The Princeton Review for the last seven years, UTD is a public research university with more than 28,600 students and more than 140 academic degrees including top-ranked programs in science, technology, engineering, arts, and management.

Experience some of the country’s top rated and most anticipated events, award winning fine arts festivals, concerts and fireworks shows. In the City of Richardson, you’ll find endless possibilities of engagement for everyone in the family. Rich in culture and arts, the City of Richardson is the perfect place to stop and take it all in. Featuring the CityLine/Bush and UT Dallas Stations, Richardson is a place where commuters can move to all points on the compass and have limitless transport possibilities.