Dallas Area Rapid Transit
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Arapaho Center Light Rail Station (Top)
A DART NovaBus RTS (Bottom) |
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| Founded | 1983 |
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| Headquarters | 1401 Pacific Avenue |
| Locale | Dallas, Texas |
| Service area | Dallas and 12 nearby suburbs |
| Service type | Bus, light rail, commuter rail, modern streetcar |
| Routes | 113 bus 18 FLEX / shuttle 4 light rail 1 commuter rail 1 modern streetcar |
| Stops | 12,322 |
| Hubs | 15 (transfer centers) |
| Stations | 64 (light rail) 10 (commuter rail) 6 (streetcar) |
| Fleet | 612 (bus) 163 (light rail) |
| Daily ridership | 210,600 (Q1 2016) |
| Annual ridership | 67,514,800 (2015) |
| Fuel type | DC Electric, Liquefied Natural Gas, Diesel |
| Chief executive | Gary Thomas |
| Website | DART |
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority (or DART) is a transit agency in Dallas, Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs. With the extension of the Orange Line to DFW Airport station at DFW Airport on August 18, 2014 and the extension of the Blue Line to UNT Dallas on October 24, 2016, DART is the largest light rail operator in the United States, with 93 miles (149.7 km) of track.
Average daily ridership for DART has been in the vicinity of 200,000 riders per day over the last couple decades. In the 1st quarter of 1998, DART's weekday ridership averaged 211,000 riders per day system-wide. Total ridership numbers have risen and fallen since then; total ridership, including Trinity Railway Express ridership, has been as high as 248,500 average weekday riders in the 3rd quarter of 2008, and as low as 194,700 average weekday riders in the 1st quarter of 2010. However, after a year-long study in 2012 that counted passenger counts through both the existing manual method and a new automated counting system, DART concluded that it has been underreporting rail ridership by more than 15 percent each year. In the 4th quarter of 2012, DART reported total ridership of 252,900 weekday riders on average. In the fourth quarter of 2014, DART reported that total ridership had declined to 233,900 weekday riders.
DART reported the following ridership numbers in the 4th quarter of 2012:
4th quarter of 2014 ridership numbers:
The Dallas Transit System (DTS) was the publicly owned mass transit service operated by the city of Dallas, from 1964 to 1988. DTS resulted from a consolidation of various privately owned transit companies and streetcar lines. Prior to DTS, the company was formerly known as the Dallas Railway and Terminal Company when Dallas had an extensive streetcar system that spanned from Oak Cliff to north Dallas. The name was changed shortly after the last streetcar ran in January 1956. DART formally took over operations of the DTS in 1988.
In 2000, DART employees restored a 1966 DTS bus to its original state.
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