Officials agree on station locations for transit project

From: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

by: Gordon Dickson July 8, 2009

D/FW AIRPORT — A proposal to link commuter and light-rail trains from Fort Worth and Dallas at the cities’ jointly owned airport by 2013 is back on track, now that transit officials have worked through their differences over station locations.

The proposal to connect the two transit systems at a station between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Terminals A and B was among several items discussed Wednesday night during a joint meeting of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority and Dallas Area Rapid Transit boards.

The compromise allows the Fort Worth authority, known as the T, to continue with plans to build a commuter rail line through Northeast Tarrant County and Grapevine, connecting to the airport by running the tracks parallel to International Parkway and dead-ending at Terminal B.

From the east, DART would extend its Orange Line light-rail system through Irving to Terminal A, including a ground-level, dog-leg turn around the northeastern edge of the airfield.

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