KCHornedFrog wrote:The parade Friday has me thinking - How is Dallas/Arlington handling transportation to AT&T for the World Cup given the nearest train station is a 30 minute or so walk?
They plan to have a shuttle bus service regularly going back and forth between ATT stadium and CentrePort station during the world cup. They did this for Wrestlemania last year and are planning to do it again for the MLB All-star game next year.
There's actually a good DMN article about this stemming from the world series:
Why is there no mass public transportation to get to the World Series in Arlington?To get a stop on the proposed I-30 high speed rail line Arlington would apparently have to join a transit authority.
Though there are roadblocks to joining a transit authority as a full member, there is another way. Grapevine is not a full member of Trinity Metro but joined as what’s called a local government corporation. Grapevine doesn’t get full Trinity Metro service and only pays 3/8ths of a cent in sales tax to join.
Morris explained that joining a transit authority as a local government corporation would allow Arlington to get around the membership sales tax minimum and get more creative with financing. It also doesn’t have to be voted on by residents like joining as a full member would, just the city council, according to state law.
I hope this path eventually leads to a couple steady bus routes at least.