ByBRANDON FORMBY bformby@dallasnews.com Transportation Writer



23 September 2015






Dallas Area Rapid Transit will seek federal approval for a second downtown light-rail route that the Dallas City Council and downtown residents support but that business and civic leaders worry will jeopardize funding.

Yet the route officials chose may not be where the new set of tracks are actually put.

DART board members late Tuesday unanimously voted to develop a route that uses a combination of Young and Jackson streets to connect western downtown Dallas to Deep Ellum. That support came with the caveat that other routes will be explored “as required by the federal funding process.”

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20150922-dart-to-seek-federal-approval-for-downtown-line-using-jackson-street-route.ece


Additional stories: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2015/09/23/dart-selects-route-second-downtown-rail-line/72661144/

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/DART-Board-Approves-Second-Downtown-Dallas-Rail-Line-328759921.html