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Media Relations Contact:
Morgan Lyons
Mark A. Ball
September 28, 2010
Board approves budget, financial plan to fund operations, DART Rail
expansion
The $1.25 billion FY 2011 budget and updated 20-year financial plan approved by the Dallas Area
Rapid Transit (DART) Board of directors supports the doubling of DART Rail to 90 miles. The FY
2010 budget was $1.6 billion. The decrease is primarily due to a lower capital budget, largely the
result of the completion of the Green Line this December.
The budget and financial plans were approved September 28. There are three components to the
budget:
, Operating Budget: $422 million
, Capital Budget: $707.1 million
Debt Service Budget: $127.4 million
TOTAL FY 2011: $1.25 billion
The heart of the expansion from 48 miles to 90 miles by 2014 is the December 6 opening of the final
24 miles of the Green Line light rail. The full 28-mile, $1.8 billion project connects Southeast Dallas
with Downtown, Northwest Dallas, Farmers Branch and Carrollton. DART also will open the Lake
Highlands Station on the Blue Line between White Rock and LBJ/Skillman stations on December 6.
The budget and financial plan fund ongoing construction of the Orange Line to Irving (first phase
opening 2012) and a Blue Line extension from Garland to Rowlett (2012).
Other projects in the Financial Plan include the completion of the Orange Line to DFW Airport and
the Blue Line extension in South Oak Cliff from Ledbetter Station to the UNT Dallas campus.
Completion of these projects is contingent on continued sales tax growth and contributions from a
mix of project cost savings, increased debt and, if approved, additional federal funds.
At the same time, DART staff continues the environmental assessment and preliminary engineering
for a second light rail alignment through downtown Dallas. This will help position the project for
possible future federal funds. The adjustment in DART Rail operating headways from 10 to 15
minutes lessens the need to immediately construct the alignment. There are also new considerations
with the potential inclusion of new streetcar lines in the Central Business District and to Oak Cliff.
Work on the second alignment will be coordinated with streetcar line proposals under consideration
by the City of Dallas. Staff will be simultaneously developing a new funding plan to insure the project
will be constructed in the appropriate timeframe.
More than 75% of the agency's income is from the collection of the one-percent sales tax in each of
the 13 cities served by DART. Anticipated sales tax receipts for fiscal year 2010 are expected to be
between $12 and $14 million below the original estimate of $387.8 million.
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Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark. Board approves budget, financial plan to fund operations, DART Rail expansion, text, September 28, 2010; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1226096/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).