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Media Relations Contact:
Morgan Lyons
July 8, 2010
DART receives $4.9 million federal grant for downtown streetcar connector
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is scheduled to receive $4.9 million from the US Department of
Transportation (DOT) as part of the $130 million Urban Circulator Grant Program.
The grant is one of 53 proposals totaling nearly $300 million in federal funding for both the Urban
Circulator Program and the Bus and Bus Livability Program. DOT officials say winning projects were
selected from 281 applicants totaling more than $2 billion in funding requests. The DART grant will
have a local match of $5 million from the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
The project creates a new connection between Uptown and Downtown Dallas. It is a rail track loop,
just under three-quarters of a mile long, connecting the M-line Olive Street extension to the current
M-line track on St. Paul Street. It will provide a direct connection to DART's St. Paul Station and
improve connections to popular destinations like the Dallas Museum of ART and the Nasher
Sculpture Garden. The M-line's heritage vehicle fleet will still be used. Ultimately the line will connect
with the planned Downtown Dallas streetcar project and will be built to accommodate a modern
streetcar.
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Lyons, Morgan. DART receives $4.9 million federal grant for downtown streetcar connector, text, July 8, 2010; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1226962/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).