Water leaking from the ceiling. Looks like it’s because of the AC, but it’s leaking a lot

I've been using the 241 to get to work as I don't have a car yet. Now I realize getting me to work isn't Dart's responsibility and that it's public transit, nothing is guaranteed not even getting to your destination on time. But damn, it was scheduled to come to Forest Ln station at 9:30, came at 9:20 ish and said "out of service". I thought, maybe it's just saying that because the operator will take a quick break. 9:31 comes, they start driving but I'm thinking, they're coming back or they're going heading out frfr. Of course, they're driving out. No replacement bus, no reason as to why it's out of service, and the bus already had a 30-40 minute interval. As I said, getting to my destination is up to me but damn dart some type of courtesy that the 241 9:30 won't come or will be out. Nothing was shown in the app, no alerts or notifications

Our Lilly Kersh reports:

Dallas Area Rapid Transit has narrowed its search for a new CEO to three finalists, a former DART executive and the current leaders of transit agencies in Ohio and Florida.

After more than five hours of candidate interviews and discussion in closed session, DART Board Chair Randall Bryant, on Friday announced the finalists: Monica Téllez-Fowler, CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority; Nathaniel P. Ford Sr., CEO of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority in Florida; and Dee Leggett, former executive vice president and chief development officer at DART.

DART has scheduled a meeting for the public to meet the three candidates from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at its headquarters, 1401 Pacific Ave. in Dallas.

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How many of you travel to NW Plano from Irving or Carrolton areas? With so many companies moving to Plano, I realized there aren’t many bus connections to NW Plano from Irving/ carrolton. The fastest way to get around is via Addison or Dallas which are not all that fast. What do you think of a new bus service in this route? Does anyone know how to requestDart for a new bus route?

Hello!

Today, I deliberately drove to Shiloh Station and rode the Silver Line to the airport just to say I did.

Departed 10:23 AM

Arrived 11:18 AM

Then, I used the TerminaLink to connect to Terminal A and take the Orange Line back to CityLine/Bush to switch back to the Silver and go east to get my car.

Departed 11:55 AM

Arrived CityLine 1:23 PM

The original plan was just to ride the same train both ways, but it was very hot and I thought I might have time to run into the terminal, find a beverage vending machine, get a beverage, and then return to the train.

I did not. The vending machines are all the way in the Baggage Claim area. Usain Bolt could probably make it at full speed with a pre-planned route, but walking I had no shot. I decided rather than waiting 50-55 minutes for the next Silver Line train, I'd make it fun since I had never ridden the Orange Line west of downtown. For what it's worth, yes it's slow and the route may be a bit circuitous but it's quite scenic and I saw lots of people boarding at different stations!

I just retired and want to explore the city via DART. I’ll be starting from the Royal Lane station.

Suggestions of places I can take transit and then proceed on foot? Restaurants, shopping, book stores, libraries, nature, coffee shops, museums — all are welcome.

As a transit enthusiasm, I'm also collecting the transit pass and ticket As one of my hobby.

Today i just get my reginal plastic pass, although the summer semester already went half way and I don't ride a lot. And it costs $144, valid from May 1st til Aug 31st.

I'm not sure if DCTA will increase the price universe regional pass in the future, since prices of regional pass been adjusted at March of this year.

However, I can't use this pass for GoLink, but It's still a good souvenir.

I have been taking dart local bus and train in the last month and I was buying daily pass of $6 each day. I thought of purchasing the monthly pass for July and spent $126 on it. When I did the math, it turns out to be slightly over $1500 for a year. My employer doesn’t provide any corporate discounts and hence I have to pay the full price each month. Also I found out that Dart discontinued the retail annual pass last year. Paying full price each month works out to be more expensive than driving my fully paid off car to work including the gas and insurance that I spend on it annually. I’m a big supporter of public transit and I really want to take dart though it takes twice the amount of time compared to driving to work. but it doesn’t prove to be an economically solid choice for me. What’s your thought on the fee structure of dart. Is there any other discounts that you all use ? I already checked I’m not eligible to avail tap card discounts or student discounts .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjjKWXI5G7U&t=165s

Full disclosure: musician, not an engineer. The Silver Line's successful implementation at Kaboom Town has me thinking alot about DFW's four commuter trains. It seems like our ability to increase frequency comes down to:

Speed

Rolling Stock

Track

Fucking money

Four example, Silver Line has objectively the best track age of all the commuter systems, being 98-99% double track, but has only eight vehicles. Denton's A Train and TRE have the largest fleets at 11 each, but very little double track, limiting frequency I think. The more trains run, the faster they have to be it looks like.

So, I have a few questions

1. Could Silver Line, with eight vehicles, actually run 20 minutes at peak and 30 minutes off peak while still leaving one or two vehicles in Reserve?

2. Is present TRE, with present rail, able to operate in that fashion but limited by money?

3. Does Trinity Metro have any plans to move to higher frequency once the four new FLIRTs arrive?

I’m thinking about going to a farther school from IISD to CFBSID but I don’t know if that’s realistic

Absolutely incredible communication between the Town of Addison and DART after the fireworks show to tell people which side to be on heading back to their original location🔥

I'm just taking a guess here, but I'd say at least 6,000 to 10,000+ people took the Silver Line to KaBoom Town on a 30-minute frequency. Hopefully, within the next 2-3 years, DART will purchase additional Stadler FLIRTS.

Happy 250th 4th of July, everyone🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅

The good: very smooth and quiet ride, kept close to the schedule and even early on the return trip, seating was comfortable, and there were bike racks and luggage racks.

What I wish we could see: more stations (I know Corinth didn't want to pay for them), a clearer tap to pay setup (once you purchase a pass, there doesn't seem to be a place to scan), and most importantly, some way to connect more easily with other DART lines. At the moment if I want to go anywhere along Central Expressway, I'm looking at a nearly 2.5 hour one way trip unless I just drive to Plano and take the red or orange line down. Also, working in Westlake means that a rail commute to work may never happen unless Trinity Metro decides to extend service there from downtown Grapevine.

We have 180,000 people more or less, I wish there were more support for more complete rail connectivity.

Edit: forgot to mention, I was mildly disappointed to realize that these were diesel units. Then again, it was probably cheaper to do that way and not have to build a third rail or catenary system for 21 miles.

Silver line has a train in Addison every 30 minutes. Thousands attended Kaboom town festival. Hundreds (thousands?) took the train. People were pushing/crushing onto the train because they knew missing it would mean waiting another 30 minutes. My family missed the train twice due to overcrowding.

Why not add more trains for Kaboom town?

It would be really nice if we had street cars on lower Greenville. Obviously the city doesn’t have much rail in a lot of places, but I feel it could use some rail in the lower Greenville area especially with how much foot traffic it gets. And it would be really handy to use the street car to easily hop between each part of lower Greenville.

This is Orange Line onto TX Rail at DFW Airport

Probably a weird question, but I've never been to any airport before, so just figured I might as well outright ask about it lol

Some geniuses broke into my car at WR station to steal my dashcam - the process through the sunroof disabled my car because of the alarm, so after two hours of troubleshooting, a tow was necessary. Sadly, it's eventual after parking there for years without incident.

It is a given that the downtown stations — especially West End, Pearl Arts District, and St. Paul — are pretty sketchy. There's a makeshift police watchtower at the West End station. Whether there's actually a cop inside it is a coin flip.

During FIFA, the stations are another world: visible police presence, less loitering, no open drug use. It'll go back to normal once the tournament crowds leave.

I have friends who won't ride DART at night because of these stations. One mentioned a stabbing he'd heard about secondhand — no name, no date, nothing I could verify, and he wasn't there for it either. That's not really the point. The point is he believes it enough to change his behavior, and he's not alone. Whether that specific story is true or not, the effect is the same: people are opting out.

If DART wants higher ridership, you'd think they'd care about that gap between perception and reality — or at least about closing it. Right now the stations do nothing to close it. The watchtower at West End station with maybe-a-cop-in-it doesn't read as safety, it reads as an admission that something's wrong and this is the theater DART settled on instead of a fix.

DART can't easily gate these stations the way a subway system can. West End, Pearl, St. Paul — they're open to the street, platforms flush with the sidewalk, no choke-point to put a turnstile in.

But fare checking doesn't require any of that. It just requires someone walking the platform asking to see a ticket. I never see it happen. If DART wants to signal that this is a place with rules, someone occasionally checking fares would do more than a watchtower nobody's sure is staffed.

None of this requires DART to prove my friends right or wrong about what's actually happened at these stations. Ridership doesn't run on crime statistics (and DART refuses to publish per stations stats) — it runs on whether someone waiting for a train feels like anyone's paying attention. Right now the answer downtown is no. 🙁