It has been some 60 years give-or-take since street cars were part of the urban and interurban network. Sure, the old green trolley car called the "M Line" still makes its way through Uptown to City Place, but that is more historic and nostalgia than anything else. True, it was and still is a street car but not like the 21st century ones run in eastern Europe and Scandinavian countries. But on Monday, April 13, 2015, Dallas, came back from the past to the future!
While the first part of the line is from outside Union Station at the beginning of the Houston Street Viaduct, it runs over the viaduct making four stops, the last two of which are at Zang Triangle and Colorado Boulevard at Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff. DART says that it will be expanded into the Bishop Arts District. I was hoping that it would go there originally, since there is limited or no parking to speak of in the district anyway. The other extension is slated to be around the corner from its Union Station terminus to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center and the connected Omni Hotel.
Never-the-less, it is just good to see the streetcar line back in operations. Good job, DART.
While the first part of the line is from outside Union Station at the beginning of the Houston Street Viaduct, it runs over the viaduct making four stops, the last two of which are at Zang Triangle and Colorado Boulevard at Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff. DART says that it will be expanded into the Bishop Arts District. I was hoping that it would go there originally, since there is limited or no parking to speak of in the district anyway. The other extension is slated to be around the corner from its Union Station terminus to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center and the connected Omni Hotel.
Never-the-less, it is just good to see the streetcar line back in operations. Good job, DART.
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| How sweet it is! Coming into the Zang Triangle stop on its way up the hill . |
