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Work continues on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Silver Line Regional Rail project with the start of construction on the Josey Lane bridge in Carrollton.
Photo courtesy of DART
For the initial bridge construction, a large diameter hole is drilled into the ground and filled with steel rebar and concrete for each bridge pier. With depths ranging from 42′ to 49′, each hole is drilled into the bedrock for strength and stability. With a diameter of 54″, each pier footer is filled with up to 30 cubic yards of concrete, which is over 6,000 gallons.
Photo courtesy of DART
The Silver Line Regional Rail Project’s primary purpose is to provide passenger rail connections and service that will improve mobility, accessibility and system linkages to major employment, population and activity centers in the northern part of the DART Service Area.
Want to Improve Urban Mobility? Improve Coordination First
A new report by the Transportation Research Board points toward more seamless and coordinated connections among all forms of shared mobility, such as buses, bikes, trains, scooters and more. The modern transportation ecosystem needs more seamless and coordinated connections among all forms of shared mobility, such as buses, bikes, trains, scooters and more. Shutterstock/Gorlov-KV
Improved coordination among the many modes of transportation could improve the access and ridership across all modes, according to a new report by the Transportation Research Board.
The study is seen as particularly prescient as regions and transit organizations emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has reshaped lives and jobs across all communities.
The Council Nearly Killed the Oak Cliff Streetcar, Then They Realized They Can’t
The modern streetcar remains a strain on the city s budget, but it won t become sustainable until the network expands beyond Oak Cliff
By Peter Simek
Published in
FrontBurner
February 24, 2021
9:00 am
For the first hour or so of Tuesday’s meeting of the Dallas City Council’s Transportation Committee, council members listened as the region’s top transportation official and the assistant city manager who oversees transportation discussed the need for a more integrated approach to long-range planning.
They proposed an approach to transportation planning that allowed for other city investments and services – like improved traffic signals, reconstituted streetscapes, and expanded access to high-speed internet – to be incrementally built into the system. The idea was to design each transportation project not as a single, standalone investment, but as a component of a broader network of it
DART shut LRT service down on Feb. 14. Photo courtesy DART
Most of the rail transit in Texas fell under Old Man Winter’s one-two punch of snow and bitter cold over most of the state, as it was gripped by historically low temperatures. As temperatures warmed up (into the 60s during the week of Feb. 21) and the snow melted, rail transit has returned to full service in Texas and as far north as St. Louis.
Trinity Railway Express (TRE), which runs trains between Dallas and Fort Worth, was the first provider in the area to come back, running a Saturday schedule on Feb. 18 and Feb. 19. (The line does not normally run on Sundays.) Trains are now running on weekday schedules. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) ran a Saturday schedule on Feb. 19 and continued to run through the weekend, and is now running full weekday service, too. The Denton County A-Train, which connects with DART, has returned. TEXRail in Fort Worth, run by Trinity Metro, also started running full (half-hourly) service
Dallas was prepared for an emergency but nothing like this
Instead of sheltering people at rec centers, the city is stationing coach buses in neighborhoods.
Snow-covered tents pitched along Interstate 30 were abandoned by their owners as a snow storm and subfreezing temperatures rolled into downtown Dallas. A nearby warming shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center was set up by OurCalling and was housing about 700 people who found refuge from the deadly cold temperatures in Hall E-F.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
As many of us sit shivering in freezing homes begging for this wintry nightmare to end, we’re left wondering what government breakdowns may have compounded this crisis.