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From what I remember from reading a board meeting presentation a few years ago, the plan (pre-covid at least) was to start introducing new trains to replace the oldest ones in 2025. The oldest trains were built in 1995, with a mid-lifetime rebuilt at 15 years (so around 2010; the program to add the ...

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The restaurant stalls are all occupied (or at least not empty), and the Chick-Fil-A always seems to be doing great business.

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Noticed recently that they're finally building the missing segment of the Fair Park-CBD Link between Hall and Elm/Exposition, parallel to the Green Line. I guess they started earlier this year, because it looks like they've finished pouring most of the concrete for the road now. The intersection wit...

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Back in July there was a public hearing (or in this case section of the board meeting with public invited I think) as a prerequisite to officially amending the service plan to the new east end alignment. Other than that, not much going on. The east end redo delayed the whole thing to the point that ...

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New apartments going up on Manderville north of Walnut Hill Station. Land was cleared last winter, and earthmoving began several months ago, but it wasn't until recently that they put an actual name on the fence. Only info I've found online is https://www.fairfieldresidential.com/communities/coming-...

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Bridge over White Rock Creek is complete except for the ramp on the southern end. Appears that they're building the main span for the bridge over Central in the truck parking area behind Conn's; presumably they'll pick it up and drop it in place when it's ready (gonna be a tricky maneuver to get it ...

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Spring Valley/Red Line site has been fully cleared for several weeks now, no sign of construction yet.

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Recent progress. South end is fully framed out, north end is on floor 2.

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Recent progress shot. Some of the concrete for the ground floor has been poured, and what appears to be a ramp is taking shape. So far it's not just another prefab garage that goes up quickly.

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Not sure when exactly it happened, but the Jake's Hamburgers on this spot has closed.

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In-Dallas -Ross/Lower Greenville -Fort Worth Ave/west Commerce/Main St -Cesar Chavez/S.M. Wright Ultimate ambition/fantasy: the latest version of a map I've been working on for a few years. It's been a while since I really looked at it so I might make some changes soon. There are also alternate conf...

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Hey, I drove by this morning and noticed all the bushes and landscaping along McKinney had been removed. When did that happen? The fence and brickwork walls were still there along the sidewalks, but all the bushes were cut off at the base and gone. Most of the bushes have been gone for several year...

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God they've been taking forever with this project. Based on Google Earth imagery they started work on this in late 2018, and that second bridge span they just installed has been onsite since last October.

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They've started construction on this (really more demolition at this stage).

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A new apartment building adjacent to Spring Valley Station appears to be a step closer to happening. Demolition began this week on the existing two-story office building. City council approved the project last October. Project info here: https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/richardson/gover...

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After publishing the last issue about 9 months ago, DART finally remembered they're supposed to be putting out a quarterly newsletter. Has some new construction pics in it.

https://www.dart.org/about/inmotion/spring22/4.asp

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DART has been planning to use that lot as a worksite/materials yard for D2 construction. Depending on what happens first, they may have to change their plans.

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Aerial tramways are generally only really useful in specific situations where other modes are infeasible or take much longer/farther, like if you're trying to go up a very tall and steep hill or cliff. Road- (and most rail-) based transit would require going the long way around to either a shallower...

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After leasing a pair a few years ago during a locomotive shortage, TRE last year purchased two F40PH engines, which arrived late last year and began testing last week.

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The way that light rail lines in colder places generally deal with ice on the wires is to put scrapers on the pantographs. There is of course the cost of acquiring and installing them onto the trains, but also they add wear to the wires and reduce their longevity. Given the rarity of ice storms (we'...

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At least 10 cars now have LED signs. Seems the rollout has begun in earnest.

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At some point over the summer they took down the swinging benches/chairs. I wonder if it was because of mechanical issues or because of worries about liability.

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I hope DART will reconsider completing the Knox Henderson underground light rail station! Its not that DART doesn't want that station its more that that it would require super human powers to do so. It would require construction while the trains are actively passing through the station. The conditi...

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Site's been looking a bit buggy on my end for a few days.

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Excavation began today.

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White Rock Creek bridge update pics from today.

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Some photo updates from the last few months. Been meaning to post some of these for a while but just never got around to it. 20210817_114445.jpg August 17 - last of the trees were taken down. Process began in late July. At least some of them were dug up and relocated; some lower branches and maybe s...

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Today, for the first time, I saw a pair of cars other than 135 and 222 that've had their destination signs replaced with LED ones. Cars 188 and 182, working the Green Line. As an aside, 135 and 222 have been coupled to each other and running seemingly exclusively on the Orange Line for almost a year...

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Dallas OKs a $2 million tax break for Kroger’s grocery and apartment development in Uptown Council members said they approved it because the project includes 76 units with affordable rent for lower-income households. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2021/10/27/city-okays-a-2-million-tax-b...

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More office towers for Cityline: Three more towers in the works for Richardson’s $2 billion CityLine campus Dallas-based architecture firm Corgan designed the CityLine towers, which can be connected with a sky bridge. The high-rises would have curved and patterned glass and metal exteriors with offi...

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I wonder why that land never got developed on. I can only find a few other spots in the floodplain-turned-industrial area that were never built on, and none of them are anywhere near as big.

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Noticed a change to this year's State Fair rail schedule. In previous years, they would run extra Green Line trains between Victory and Lawnview, turning around at the pocket tracks past each station. However, now they're instead running a loop service, going clockwise from Downtown to Fair Park and...

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Progress on the White Rock Creek bridge.

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https://www.dart.org/shareroot/about/expansion/d2/D2SubwayEastEndPublicMeeting05aug21.pdf
A look at the proposed solutions of what to do with the east end of D2.

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To my knowledge, there are no plans for one right now, but there should be. Halfway between existing stations is pretty ideal spacing for an infill station. During initial planning, there was going to be a station north of the Belt Line/Main overpass, but they ended up not implementing it. That spot...

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DART has a bridge to sell you. For $1. https://dartdaily.dart.org/posts/post/for-sale-cotton-belt-railroad-bridge-over-white-rock-creek-in-dallas-county Near Keller Springs Park: 32.965700, -96.810881 I thought the plan was to move the old bridge over a few feet and convert it to pedestrian use? So...

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Construction barriers went up today. Guess this one's about to get underway.

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Some progress pics from the other day. The tons of rain we had in May slowed them down for a while, but they seem to be back to normal now.

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Saw the pair of cars with LED destination signs this morning, and for the first time I've seen, LBJ/Central (as the intermediate Orange Line terminus) was correctly shown as Orange Line instead of Red.

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Last bit of construction fencing facing Akard Station was taken down today.

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Service on Arapaho between 75 and Coit disappears completely as well, meaning no access to Richardson Library or City Hall. That's a major early voting location - does that mean we can drag Jarret Walker & Co through the mud for voter suppression? There's actually a westward extension of the Na...

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Part of the black plywood construction fence facing Akard Station finally came down today. I've been riding the train semi-regularly to regularly since 2017, and if I'm remembering right the fence has been up that whole time.

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Looks like they took the tower crane down today.

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Now they need to start working on plans to put in a light rail station. Why put a dense development on a transit line but put it halfway between the nearest stations?

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Hidden Ridge Station opened for service today. As far as I can tell the Orange Line's schedule has barely been affected by the addition of the stop.

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On that note, does anyone know about the tunneling method they will use on the other D2 subway stations? It would be sad if they use cut and cover and disrupt all of Commerce, arguably the hottest pedestrian downtown area right now. They all look at least 2-3 stories deep, maybe 30-40 feet undergro...

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On that note, does anyone know about the tunneling method they will use on the other D2 subway stations? It would be sad if they use cut and cover and disrupt all of Commerce, arguably the hottest pedestrian downtown area right now. They all look at least 2-3 stories deep, maybe 30-40 feet undergro...

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Couldn't get pictures, but saw a train today with decals on the front ends of the cars commemorating/promoting the opening of Hidden Ridge station, April 9th. DART board presentation here: https://www.dart.org/about/board/boardagendas/adminitem8_23mar21.pdf

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Anyone heard anything about the old Spaghetti Warehouse? Walked by today and there were some people looking around it. Saw through an open door that the streetcar is still in the building.

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Walked by on my lunch break today, still some minor work being done. Banner on fence says the park opens March 26.

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