electricron wrote:TexRail to receive $499 million from the FTA Full Funding Agreement over several years.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/traff ... 99198.html
Archer Western has been selected to build a new $28.5m TEX Rail station next to Terminal B at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) in the US.
The Terminal B station will serve as the last stop in TEX Rail's proposed 27-mile commuter rail project, which is currently being built by the Archer Western Herzog joint venture.
Connecting downtown Fort Worth and DFW Airport, the line will improve commuting times to and from Fort Worth.
It will begin service next year and also features a walkway connecting to the existing Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) station located adjacent to Terminal A.
tamtagon wrote:...still don't understand why Colleyville fought this deal.
The Grapevine Main district is a public/private project to be built around a five-story old-style train station with 105-foot observation tower, 121-room hotel, shops, restaurants and meeting room spaces.
Construction on the project is underway at the corner of Main Street and Dallas Road in Grapevine’s downtown area.
jrd1964 wrote:Colleyville is likely acting like Corinth did about the DCTA A-Train and Knox-Henderson about the DART light rail subway section. They'll figure out later on (probably too late) that it'll be an asset, not a liability.
jrd1964 wrote:Development is coming along at several of the future TexRail stations.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/rea ... fw-airport
longhorn wrote:When does service start?
ContriveDallasite wrote:While I am really happy that DFW is now connected to both cities, still a little bummed they couldn't figure out the engineering needed to make the trains pull in through the same station. We need to make public transport more convenient.
ContriveDallasite wrote:While I am really happy that DFW is now connected to both cities, still a little bummed they couldn't figure out the engineering needed to make the trains pull in through the same station. We need to make public transport more convenient.
electricron wrote:ContriveDallasite wrote:While I am really happy that DFW is now connected to both cities, still a little bummed they couldn't figure out the engineering needed to make the trains pull in through the same station. We need to make public transport more convenient.
Even if they pulled into the same station, they could not share the same tracks and platforms. You will still need to swap platforms.
Why?
Light rail trains and buses are regulated by the FTA (Federal Transit Authority) while commuter and freight trains are regulated by the FRA (Federal Railroad Administration). Needless to say the two federal regulators have and use different regulations, so different it's impossible to run the two different type of trains on the same tracks simultaneously.
It would require at least 4 tracks and 3 platforms to run both train types to the same station, and after a quick look at both stations at DFW airport that would seem impossible. There's barely room for 2 tracks and 2 platforms at both of them. Take an overhead look at the downtown train stations in both Dallas and Fort Worth and note how wide the stations are, then try to imagine placing these wide stations in near DFW Terminals A and B. Note I wrote near, not a half mile away.
muncien wrote:I assume Cotton Belt will use the same TexRail station, correct? It sounds like DART is coming closer to going with commuter rail instead of LRT for the Cotton Belt, so DART may end up with stops at both of these stations. Plus, let's hope the TexRail and DART systems are fully compatible, and that we can get an express train that skips DFW. I know that may be asking a bit much...
Remember back when DART wanted to partner with FW to do this as one project? At the time, I was bummed that FW didn't want to play nice. But now, seeing how DART loves to over-engineer everything, it would have ended up costing much more, and delivering way later than what TexRail ended up with. Kudos to them, I guess.
Redblock wrote:Texrail to be free for January.
http://fortworthtexas.gov/news/2018/12/ ... e-service/
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