Thread 2045787

is the dart silver line /n/ approved? it’s scheduled to open in october

>>2045787 (OP)
RIP Addison property values

>>2045787 (OP)
The name change and the general lack of PR from this project make it kinda hard to figure out whether or not it is good /n/ material/.

>>2045787 (OP)
getting a ring line is going to be huge for the network. i think the two most important things are the university and airport stops which should get consistent use by students and travelers.

>>2045899
forgot pic

>>2045787 (OP)
>light rail
>in a metro area of 8 million people
it will only be /n/ approved because there's too many americans here that will consider that a transit revolution as they can't cope with the fact their passenger rail system makes places like lagos nigeria look developed

>>2046113
I also saw that they are estimating an average speed of 26 mph, which is absolutely abysmal for a 26 mile long route with only 8 intermediate stations

>>2046114
>26 mph
Holy DOA, Batman! Are they trying to sabotage their own trolley?
>Let's see here, cars have several advantages over trains, like being more convenient, usually faster, and free from uNdesIreable GentS. But hey, trains can be faster in heavy traffic!
>Make it go school zone speeds

>>2045787 (OP)
/ck/ is having a picnic.

https://boards.4chan.org/ck/thread/21426868#top

/n/ is invited. Hopefully you guys bring a loaf of sliced bread or a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper. No /k/ brownies please.

>>2046117
allegedly their top speed is 80 mph, their maximum dwell time is one minute, and a one way full trip is 59-60 minutes. going 80 mph, you can cover 26 miles in just under 20 minutes. even if you count 3 minutes lost for every intermediate stop and 2 minutes for each terminal, you still only reach 47-48 minutes, and those numbers I used are still quite conservative. i have no clue what the fuck they were smoking when they calculated it

I’m on the texrail ama

Comfy ride to Grapevine

it will be underutilized. there’s no real reason to travel to and from these places. the University and Airport passengers will make up the bulk of riders

>>2046192
>there’s no real reason to travel to and from these places
because the exact current pattern of land use has got to stay static forever and ever?

>>2046592
what the fuck does that autistic rhetorical question even meme? real life isn’t cities: skylines where you can instantly destroy and build stuff. that being said these stations are still probably the best on that whole line since they have those mixed use areas close to the station or plan to make/expand them. nowhere in between is really that worthy of a station. i like the idea of extending the line eastwards to murphy and wylie which is a possible option by 2040 they once said.

>>2045787 (OP)
>live in plano off k
>work in addison right next to airport
im so excited bros

>>2045787 (OP)
looks like shit. not even 30mph average speed? better to take the highway

This is what they took from you

>>2049388
Interurbans must've sucked if they could be put out of business by pre-Interstate roads. Also, doesn't this help disprove the myth that people liked living in cities until Big Oil/Big Car brainwashed people into moving to the suburbs?

>>2049398
Cars really suck because you'd take hours to just get to the next town if big government didn't build xboxhueg highways.

>>2049398
You’re right about the suburb thing. Streetcars and interurbans built the suburbs and they were about land speculation as much as transportation.

>>2049388
>>2049404
F

>>2049399
Right, but even without highways the interurbans still went under, meaning they were dog-slow or at least as slow as cars on pre-Interstate roads.

>>2045787 (OP)
only 3 more months

>>2049388
Downtown Van Alstyne still has interurban tracks visible in the old main thoroughfare. They just restored one of the cars as well and have it on display nearby. Very cool, but makes me seethe to think about what was lost. Also, the dart tracks technically extend northwards up to here from the parker road station, but they are only used to haul gravel freight which derails 1x per year.
t. Live here

>>2049673
Pic rel is said car, taken during a night ride

opening announcement either this week or next

>>2049674
>>2049673
It's not even real just a dressed up old boxcar. That's gay.

>>2051611
2 more weeks

someone has already tried to beat the train during testing
https://youtu.be/HP7P11ABVSU&t=156

>>2046192
>>2045787 (OP)
why would I ride dart? The first and only time I did, there was a black man at the front of the car, punching the air aggressively, in some sort of imagined boxing match, muttering to no one. No authorities were there to stop him and life went on. Not exposing myself to that in the future.

>>2053182
you can report it on the dart app

>>2053183
when seconds matter the police are only minutes away ^_^

>>2053184
what do you want to have happen? cops teleport onto a moving train? if you report it they'll probably be ready at the next stop

>>2053184
its texas, be your own first responder. anyways its super funny to watch this stuff on the dart. yes they typically hop on at the next stop, seen it happen.

>>2046754
right up in downtown here. the interior of these new cars look very nice. riding the dart is fun but so is driving... then again youd know who i am if i said what i drive

>>2053182
Do Dallas Cucks really? Even in Miami the crack heads on the train are rare

OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT
>https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-09-12/dart-silver-line-start-date-dallas-transit

Opens on Oct. 25 and free to use through Nov. 8

>>2053433
bro what do you drive you gotta tell me

new system map

>>2053935
30 more days!

>>2053935
review from famous transit map reviewer:

>Look, this diagram is perfectly functional and does its job, but there are some absolutely baffling design decisions that have been made.
>First and foremost is the decision to put a big “Effective September 15, 2025” label on the diagram, and then hiding the fact that the Silver Line doesn’t actually open until “Fall 2025” (currently planned for October 25, I believe) in small grey type over in the legend. This is obtuse at best and downright misleading at worst – many people are going to see that September date and assume that the Silver Line is open for service, when there’s still more than a month to go.
>Then there’s the depiction of the Silver Line itself: the new, modern flagship route reduced to stair-stepping its way across the diagram like a drunken escalator, with ten – ten! – changes in direction on the way, some of them underneath station symbols. Even under the constraints of this diagram’s format, there has a way to straighten out and simplify this line so it looks like a fast and direct route.
>Then there’s the whole issue of all the different angles used for the route lines. Every single angled line is different and only one of them is exactly 45 degrees! Yes, I measured all of them because I was trying to work out why the diagram felt so visually uneasy – my results are shown below.

>>2054950
Pt. 2
>As you can see, there are “45-degree” angles that actually range from 38.8 to 46.2 degrees, and “60-degree” angles between 56.7 amd 59.6 degrees. It’s absolutely bonkers and makes it looks like the design team just eyeballed everything instead of constraining their angles properly. Craziest of all is the A Train, which should just be an extension of the Green Line’s one and only actual 45 degree angle, but somehow manages to measure in at just 44.2 degrees!
>Add to all this some poor labelling (why is Westmoreland to the right of the route line when all the other stations on that leg of the Red Line are to the left?), some badly nested curves, and a pretty inelegant fare zone boundary to the left of the diagram, and the whole thing feels very unfinished, almost like a first draft. It’s certainly not something I’d like to use to promote my brand new line.
>Our final word: Bizarrely sloppy.
https://transitmap.net/dart-texas-system-map-2025/

>one train per hour except between 6am-9am and 4pm-7pm
that's awful. should be 30 minute frequency all day

two more weeks

two more days!

Went and rode it today for the opening day celebration. They had some little festivities at each station. Rode from end to end and it was packed the whole way. Was glad to see so many people using it.

Imagine being a britisher and just never realizing your slang is the queens tits

>>2057156
i was going to take it to work today but i woke up too late, really glad to see its in use but sad that my commute will be packed

>>2057156
>Was glad to see so many people using it.
they were all using it because it was free and a novelty first day thing. check back in a month and see

anyone try riding at night yet?

>sound walls only through dallas suburb
holy NIMBY

>>2057362
>neighborhood self determination is bad
YIMBYs are subhuman

>>2057364
that corridor was marked for passenger rail since the 1980s, they knew when they bought the house that the train was coming

>>2057370
What are you even arguing. You think adults who own houses should be punished with preventable noise just because you have a weird axe to grind with people who symbolize your parents in your mind? Grow up.

>>2057371
that corridor was marked for passenger rail since the 1980s, they knew when they bought the house that the train was coming

>>2057372
What are you even arguing. You think adults who own houses should be punished with preventable noise just because you have a weird axe to grind with people who symbolize your parents in your mind? Grow up.

rode it today to work it was clean and comfy and empty, very nice experience