lakewoodhobo wrote:There's an industrial district (about 155 acres) just south of the Westmoreland DART Station that should be master-planned for a massive mixed-use TOD. One thing that's really unique about the site are the old railroad rights of way that could be turned into trails, especially since west of Westmoreland this same ROW will become the Chalk Hill Trail.
DART needs a major anchor for this end of the Red Line, and a mixed-income housing development with appropriate density would do a lot for ridership.
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In case anyone is wondering what a rails to trails collector loop would look like around central Dallas, one that imitated the 22-mile one which Atlanta is building, well, I think DART Westmoreland Station would be an important hub on it.
Such a loop would be significantly farther out from the city center than the Katy Trail itself. It would be more legible -- that is, simple to remember how one's position is oriented with respect to the city when facing it from any direction -- and not as lopsided as the 50-mile The LOOP system suggests:
https://theloopdallas.org/wp-content/up ... OP-Map.pdfhttps://www.dallasparks.org/DocumentCen ... ap-7-16-20From Katy Trail at DART Mockingbird Station, there is a good reason to use the existing system of University Crossing Trail - Ridgewood Trail - SoPac Trail - White Rock Creek Trail, and then to extend it as The LOOP does southward over the funded Trinity Forest Spine Trail to a Pemberton Hill Road Trail.
If it were possible, going across the river to the Wonderview Park using the existing John C Phelps Trail would be the ideal. In fact if you survey the layout of the city, then Illinois Avenue - Westmoreland Avenue - West Mockingbird - Mockingbird Lane completes a square around downtown perfectly. White Rock Lake and Westmoreland Station mark the NE and SW corners. At 32 miles it would be about 8 miles to a side and very evenly centered/spaced between downtown Dallas and Loop 12. I hadn't known that before now.