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DART light rail service
Due in Carrollton by 2010
BY DAN EAKIN
Staff Writer
Cesar Molina, director of engineering for the city of Carrollton, said the new DART rail service is expected to be open to the public by December 2010.
DART representatives have appeared before the Carrollton City Council at recent meetings giving updates on the progress and plans for the building of two light rail tracks along the Katy line, from downtown Dallas northward to Frankford Road.
Light rail passenger stations will be located in old downtown Carrollton at Belt Line Road and Broadway, at Trinity Mills and at Frankford Road.
“They expect to start turning dirt in downtown Dallas in February 2007,” Molina said, for the 15-mile expansion of the DART rail system into north Carrollton. Two new tracks will run alongside the present freight tracks that will continue to be in operation.
The new line will totally change the appearance of the intersection at Belt Line Road and Broadway. The tracks will be elevated, beginning just south of Crosby Road, continuing over Belt Line Road and even Keller Springs before going back to ground level just south of Trinity Mills. The new tracks will follow the present freight line under the George Bush Tollway and continue on ground to Frankford Road.
At Belt Line and Broadway, passengers will park vehicles at a nearby parking lot and then take either stairs or an elevator to board a train.
Molina said the public may be seeing trains running up and down the tracks as early as November 2010, but that will be only for testing before the rail service is opened to the public in December 2010.
The trains, which have no engines but are operated electronically, will run every 10 minutes during peak periods and every 20 minutes during non-peak periods Monday through Friday, Molina said. He said how often they run on weekends will be determined by public demand.
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