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[FortWorthology]

Music to my ears, this.  From my man Dan McGraw in the Fort Worth Weekly:

"I Can Hear That Train ...
Light rail is knocking on Fort Worth’s front door again.

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The system being proposed:

[FortWorthology]

I've got word back from one of the committee members - he is very encouraged by the response from yesterday's presentation.  The entire council is in favor of putting the design and funding questions back on their official agenda.  Mayor Moncrief's biggest concern was funding, but it sounds like even he seems more supportive after the committee's stressing that the streetcar project would not compete with the TRE and its dollars, but rather help strengthen it even more as a fully integraged transit system.

Whatever the outcome, light rail is now back in the city's sights.  That alone is a big step forward after the abandonment of the original plan in 2001.

[krazeeboi]

Sounds encouraging!

Is there commuter rail between Dallas and Fort Worth?

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krazeeboi, on Nov 5 2007, 08:25 PM, said:

Sounds encouraging!

Is there commuter rail between Dallas and Fort Worth?

There is - the Trinity Railway Express:

http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/

Running since 2001 between downtown Fort Worth's Texas & Pacific Terminal and Intermodal Transportation Center to Union Station, Victory Station, and Medical/Market Center in Dallas by way of Richland Hills, Hurst, CentrePort just south of DFW Airport, West Irving, and South Irving.  Most recent ridership was a little over 2.5 million per year, and growing.

Fort Worth already has another commuter line in the planning, known as Southwest to Northeast which would run from southwest Fort Worth through downtown, up through Grapevine and directly into DFW Aiport's terminals.

http://www.sw2nerail.com/

Then, of course, there's the streetcar plan talked about on this thread.