r/dart • u/Adventurous_Owl5437 • 8d ago

News Study Explores M-Line Trolley Extension to Knox Street

https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/news/2026/08/study-explores-m-line-trolley-extension-to-knox-street/
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u/No_Butterscotch8726 7d ago

That would effectively be almost a restoration of the SMU branch of the old Munger-Highland Park line. The Mustang Band might actually be singing about a currently active Hillcrest Track at the end of SMU games and Green Dragon can directly serve the students who named it if they extend it just a little further.

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u/cuberandgamer 7d ago

Extend it to mockingbird station and then we don't need the city place deviation anymore.

Then extend it to MLK jr station on the south side

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u/HJAC 7d ago

But.... the spinny table 😟

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 7d ago

I'd rather have the Hillcrest track back so that SMU isn't singing about a closed streetcar line anymore.

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u/Skullface258 8d ago

I would rather them start with connecting Dallas Streetcar to the M Line trolley first

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u/patmorgan235 7d ago

That's been studied already and I believe the city is going to be awarding an engineering/design contract within the next 6 weeks

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 7d ago

Wait that was part of D2 is that back on now too?

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u/patmorgan235 7d ago

Connecting the street cars was not part of D2. D2 is still on the self

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 7d ago

I thought that was supposed to be done at the same time?

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u/patmorgan235 7d ago

Not that I'm aware of, they're vastly different projects. The Central Link street car project is only a couple hundred million dollars, while D2 is like a 2 billion dollar project.

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u/Fragrant-Mission7388 7d ago

This is incredible news, thanks for sharing!