11:27 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
By BRANDON FORMBY / The Dallas Morning News bformby@dallasnews.com
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board unanimously approved a plan Tuesday night for how North Texans probably will use two future passenger rail lines to reach the region's largest economic engine, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
"Start packing your bags, we're going to get you to D/FW soon," board chairman Randall Chrisman said moments before the vote.
The board's decision solidified plans for the Orange Line, which will connect downtown Dallas to the airport by 2013. The line will run through Irving, whose officials have spent years putting together what is probably the country's largest collection of transit-oriented development projects.
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