"Austin's...trying" Truer words haven't been spoken.

@veganmax8015

11 ай бұрын

They won't even add the new bus lines from the big multibillion dollar transit bond

@dontlookatmypants

8 ай бұрын

They should try so much harder, but the state chose the backwards route and now they wanna turn the city into a highway . Wooooo :((

@kaymillerfromTX

5 ай бұрын

I don’t see it, I see the opposite. Refusing to expand the highways unless it’s a toll lane or toll roads entirely. Refusing to build a proper rail system despite having the resources and builds one rail with an awful route. Keep Austin weird = keep it the same despite the population tripling since 1980. Horrible planning.

@OliversElevators

2 ай бұрын

@@veganmax8015the bus lines are in fact under construction. I live in Austin and have seen the construction (slowly) progressing. The two initial lines are scheduled to open next year, and as it currently stands they most likely will. The light rail, on the other hand, has been more of a mess. Being the flagship project of the transit expansion plan (and thereby garnering the most publicity), it’s attracted the ire of anti-transit activists and state legislators alike, both of which are doing everything they can to kill the project. It’s been a wild ride so far and we’ve definitely dodged some bullets, but we just have to take it one year at a time until construction starts and people realize that it’s happening whether they like it or not. Oh, the perks of building transit in a state so hostile to it!

@MrMannyfresh78

13 күн бұрын

I guess “trying” is a 15 year old, underdeveloped metro line that doesn’t even run through a very busy downtown, or connect with the Amtrak station, and the airport…

Dallas resident and frequent rider of the DART system. The reason they play the opera music is to annoy the homeless people and make them leave.😥

@whazzat8015

2 ай бұрын

No, the music just makes them get on the DART cars where they ride for free

@lilkris3008

Ай бұрын

Seems like they would do better to just Carter to them they are the only customers I see getting on or off them and I work across from mockingbird station

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

​@@lilkris3008 "Carter to them"? DART trains are a rolling homeless shelter, and the MBStation is filthy and feels unsafe. Vandalized non working ticket kiosks. Blind zombie "police" , sleeping cleanup crews on their phones more than brooms. Rivals Forest Lane for "ambiance". DART thinks rider safety is an app.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

@@lilkris3008 "Carter to the them". ? DART is just a rolling homeless shelter.

@korcommander

Ай бұрын

I mean, its better than the homies beating them up for being dumb on the trains.

Growing up in Dallas, I lived in the suburbs where there were no lines. They've since expanded and I hope to see the day where I can actually use a train to get where I need to go.

As a current rail operator for Dart, i just wanna say thanks for speaking positively about the system. We’ve got some kinks to definitely work out and it should’ve been heavy rail but it’s here nonetheless and not going anywhere! Quality of service will only increase and changes are coming 😁

@ClassyWhale

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! We really appreciate what you do. Rumor has it the passive aggressively timed automated smoking announcement was manually triggered by the operator, is this true?

@jaidenbikerbear

11 ай бұрын

@@ClassyWhale so they were actually automated to be way more frequent during/right after covid because the homeless as well as people who have no regard for actual passengers sorta took over the trains as ridership decreased due to the pandemic. As of now, those announcements are triggered by operators when needed!

@davidbullock4246

11 ай бұрын

Nice video. Dart rail operator here as well. I’m glad that you were able to read the map and explain the system properly!

@kruzedarling9347

9 ай бұрын

@@davidbullock4246hi there, I just moved to Dallas and I would love to work for DART, how do u recommend getting a job as an operator?

@OliversElevators

2 ай бұрын

Any talk of bringing back the D2 subway project? Or is it officially dead?

They play opera in the stations to keep people who've taken drugs away, when you are high, opera music is very scary for some reason.

@anthonyhughes9149

8 ай бұрын

As in completely stoned on something and listening to The Ride of the Valkyres

Btw, Dallas had a subway many decades ago, 20s and 30s. It was abandoned with the cars left inside. There are very few entry points this days that are very secure. It was under Main St. Downtown.

I love that you can ride rail all the way from Dallas to Denton, Texas

@danatronics9039

5 күн бұрын

Now we just need to bring back interurban service to Waco and other outlying cities.

great video, but *eye twitch* it's Plano with a long a, ("Playno"), not a short a ("Planno").

@ClassyWhale

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking in Spanish, haha!

@monkevibin

Ай бұрын

I was thinking this too😭

@danatronics9039

5 күн бұрын

@@ClassyWhale Now try pronouncing Amarillo 😃

@chrisbartolini1508

3 күн бұрын

@@danatronics9039ah-mah-ree-oh

@eddyawesomes

4 сағат бұрын

It is Spanish but the Gringos pronounce it “Playno” you actually pronounced it right.

I haven’t seen a good quality video of DART on KZread yet so thanks for releasing this! DFW may lag behind many other US cities of its size but it’s definitely the leader in Texas when it comes to transit. It’s not without its challenges though as many of DFW’s northern suburbs don’t want the light rail to expand there so definitely a lot of NIMBY opposition to overcome there. There are also issues with sketchiness and frequency as well as a genuine love for cars that the area still has to overcome. But it’s made some great strides in comparison to Austin and Houston (which are either expanding slowly or adding BRT instead) and San Antonio (which looked into LRT but is literally doing nothing other than expanding 1604 and hoping that would solve the problem). All the DFW area needs to do is add some BRT lines to its newer suburbs and it should be fine. Texas is still the epitome of car-centric sprawl though, and it’s still dominated by Republicans, so it’s got a long way to go.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

DART trains are a rolling homeless shelter, filthy and feels unsafe to ride. IMAGE IS OF BAD EXPERIENCE. Vandalized non working ticket kiosks. Blind zombie "police" , Dirty station with sleeping cleanup crews on their phones more than their brooms. DART thinks rider safety is an app, customer service an email.

Just arrived back to New York from Austin...I felt in LOVE with Texas!! My God, best State I've ever been!! I want to move there so badly!! Love you Texans!!!

@MoreJamesSmith

5 ай бұрын

Stay up there

@AlberHandcock

3 ай бұрын

don’t love something just cause everyone else is,stay in New York

@whazzat8015

2 ай бұрын

the Governor will be pleased to hear it. Picked out the family guns yet?

@chiefpacman

21 күн бұрын

Just don't make TX more like NY if you move here. Then again, Austin is not a good example of what Texas is about.

@yorick22

11 күн бұрын

trust me, you’re not missing out on anything here.

Dallas is actually doing not bad when it comes to Public Transport Globally. Whilst, true, there is a lot more they can do, they are really expanding, especially between Dallas and Fort Worth. And they also have many lines in planning, which is better than other american cities, such as those who have given up after building a little light rail line or those who completely gave up in the too hard basket. Dallas is not one of those two.

@secrets.295

9 ай бұрын

It is doing good for American standards but it's below average for a first world country city. Lol. There are plenty of Japanese cities & Korean cities that are very spread out but they are extremely properly planned. I guess the biggest difference is that Japanese & Koreans don't live in a big house with huge backyards. Their house is very small & even their apartments are very small compared to the US. All the apartments & housing are built right next to each other. The result is hundreds of extremely densely populated residential areas. It's just much easier to build lots of stations all over the place and you are almost guaranteed to have high riderships in each & every station. The only way for public transport to have really high ridership is by creating many highly densely populated areas around Dallas. In which I am not sure Texans are ready for that. Many West Americans are so obsessed with having a large backyard, I doubted the culture will ever go away

@dontlookatmypants

8 ай бұрын

Dallas really impresses me as a lifelong Texas native. I wish the Rio grande valley of South Texas had a similar system, allthough all our working class economy would need to get the most efficiency and beneficial aspects of rail would be a a train type line going from mission to Brownsville, with a light rail extension from the McAllen airport to utrgv in north Edinburg and stops along the way. Unfortunately, our leaders are essentially bought out by big oil and suspiciously after Elon musk abuse of our area , all light rail talks from officials (various articles) went completely silent. Dallas , relative to Texas standards , is a miracle. Especially considering how much it will expand. Most Texas cities are made to bake you in the oven during the summer , or kill pedestrians trying to walk across 8 lanes. Dallas still has these qualities , but so does Houston and Austin. They aren't doing anywhere near as good of a job at providing alternatives as Dallas is. Props to dart ! Really cool system

@jeSuisbar

7 ай бұрын

@@secrets.295 It’s actually below average for American standards too. Dart loses more money (in negatives) than a lot of LRTs. San Diego’s Trolley with only 65 miles of track has 200k riders. Dallas with 93 miles of track has 153k riders. This is based on the company’s website of Dart & Trolley. Keep in mind, both cities are sprawled. Yet, San Diego places their stations in dense areas & retail stores. Dallas for the most part has giant parking lots with empty warehouses surrounding some stations.

@jeSuisbar

7 ай бұрын

@@dontlookatmypants Very true, the oil and gas unfortunately are letting public transportation fall apart. Dart has potential to increase ridership but the stations are far from dense. A lot of commuters don’t have a car. Unlike the south, just recently many western states can extend their LRTs very long. Yet, in global standards we are now behind Morocco, Indonesia, Turkey and just recently MX. They are/have opened (ing) an HSR.

@user-cr1iz8fw6h

5 ай бұрын

Yep.. Dallas actually understands that lines need to connect suburbs to the city and not just inside the city. They’ve also done a good job at providing parking and buses right at the train stations. Also, another factor is that Dallas cost of living close to the train stations is actually pretty affordable in many areas unlike other cities. I took it quite a bit to get to downtown and Richardson when I lived there but what concerned me was the safety issues and the smell. It always smelled like pee and was always so desolate I was uneasy and on guard at all times.

Go big or go home in Texas, and their barbecue is definitely out of the park! I don't blame Texans for loving their flag so much. It's simple, yet iconic. Blue stands for loyalty, white for purity, red for bravery, and the lone star represents Texan unity. Besides Texas, the other state flags I love are Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, and Maryland. The copper star on Arizona's flag symbolizes Arizona being the largest producer of copper in the US, it shows the rays of a setting Sun because Arizona is a western state, blue and gold are the colors of Arizona, while red and gold are the colors of the Spanish flags that were carried by Coronado’s Expedition of 1540 to find the Seven Cities of Gold. It's true that 7-Eleven started in Texas! Founded in 1927 as an icehouse. The company's first outlets were called "Tote'm Stores" between 1928 and 1946 because customers "toted" away their purchases. The name was changed to 7-Eleven in 1946 to reflect their new operating hours of 7 am to 11 pm, seven days a week. Wanna know the why the n in their logo is lowercased? It's because the first wife of John P. Thompson Sr., the company's president during the 1960s, thought the all-capitals version seemed a little aggressive and wanted it to be more graceful. While the Budd SPVs were used as the Moroccan royal train, but it was only used for Hassan II and under his successor, has since fallen into disuse.

@whazzat8015

2 ай бұрын

And these rolling homeless shelters are the best in the world!

I'm sorry to DART, but I hate the way that they did the maps on the light rail cars. Multiple lines literally go in the opposite direction that the map conveys it does, it's so misleading and I hate it

@Johnsneglect

11 ай бұрын

North is right but also down. How hard is that to understand?

@metroidnerd9001

11 ай бұрын

I think the horizontal maps on the trains are moreso just meant to convey the connections between the stations and not the literal geographical positions of them. They don't have much space to work with in the spot they put those maps in, so they get the most important points across.

@JE_DTX

10 ай бұрын

No it's not 😂 I always understood dart just doesn't go everywhere it needs to but it is clutch

@bitbucketcynic

Ай бұрын

It's not meant to be a literal map, just a sequence of stations so you know how soon your stop is coming up.

Lamar Hunt first coined the term Super Bowl in 1966! Hunt was originally born in Arkansas but was raised in Dallas. Lamar was once the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. Hunt later said the name was likely in his head because his children had been playing with a Super Ball toy, which said toy is displayed at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The championship was officially called the Super Bowl starting in 1969 with the third edition in Miami, Florida. Another DFW invention is liquid paper! Bette Claire Graham invented it while working as a typist in 1951 and searching for an easier way to correct mistakes. She started out in her kitchen, mixing tempera paint in her blender and providing small bottles of the product, first called Mistake Out, to co-workers. She would later call it Liquid Paper and sold her company to Gillette in 1979 for nearly 50 million with royalties. Her son....is Mike Nesmith of THE MONKEES!

@spanishroyalty1254

Ай бұрын

I see you everywhere

Loved your video! As someone who worked on the DART rail project over 45 years ago (my first job after college), I am just amazed at how the DART System has found a way to actually work. Anytime I'm in Dallas, I am drawn to ride the rails as I find doing so relaxing. In fact, a few years ago, I was able to complete riding all 93 miles of DART rail (It took a few years since the Orange Line was completed to DFW about 2 years ago) which was a dream of mine. I was an engineering assistant while working on the DART rail project which involved field survey work on proposed lines and the creation of drawings for many of the stations such as Mockingbird Station that the engineers used for final design of the stations. I still have a few of these at home. I feel DART has made a very positive impact on the area and has pulled many commuters out of their cars. (VERY HARD to do in the Big D!!) By The Way - Plano is pronounced "Plain-O." Hope you can do more DART videos!

@whazzat8015

2 ай бұрын

And don't forget the tour of the Forest Lane Station Homeless camp

@robertolebron2296

6 күн бұрын

So the connection to the DFW airport is technically new 2 years ago? Man, thank goodness it was finished when I first visited Dallas, saves me renting a car

From memory, the use of classical music to deter antisocial activities was pioneered in the underpasses of transit facilities in Berlin and select parts of the Eastern Netherlands \m/

The opera playing at St. Paul is to discourage homeless from sleeping there. It's been there for years

“San Antonio never even got started”

@randomtransitadventures

Ай бұрын

Spoken with confidence

You definitely don't think of Texas when you think of places with good transit, but the Dallas-Fort Worth Area definitely excels. That tower with the ball at 0:22 is the Reunion Tower! Called such because it's in the Reunion district, which in turn is named after the La Réunion commune. Which was a utopian community founded by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists in 1855. It dissolved in 1857 and most of it was incorporated into Dallas by 1860 while the rest was incorporated in 1940. The sculpture you saw at Deep Ellum at 2:04 is called the Traveling Man, it's a series of three different sculptures. They represent the history of rail transportation in the area and its more recent development as an artistic community. Kinki Sharyo is the same manufacturer that worked on rolling stock for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, Sound Transit's Central Link/1 Line, the Cairo Metro, different types of Shinkansen, Doha Metro, Dubai Metro, the Manila Light Rail, and VTA Light Rail to name a few.

@AutoGamerZ_

11 ай бұрын

I mean, the DFW area also contains the largest city in the US without any scheduled public transport.

@AverytheCubanAmerican

11 ай бұрын

@@AutoGamerZ_ Yeah that's fair, and twenty minute headways is a yikes, but considering this is Texas....Dallas and Fort Worth having all this rail in use is definitely better than nothing. But still a way to go.

Las Colinas APT System hasn't been demolished yet, which indicates that maybe they are going to keep maintaining it for when future growth demands its reopening

Arlington really gums up the works when it comes to regional transit. The largest city in the US without public transit. 400k population and not even a single bus line. They're right in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth but will not join DART or Trinity Metro, which is one reason why the TRE veers so far north to go between downtowns. I don't know much about this, but it seems the Texas legislature could create a new transit authority encompassing the entire region and force Arlington into the mix, but even if that's possible they wouldn't do that.

@russianbear0027

Ай бұрын

Oh my GOD does Arlington throw a spanner in the works. They don't even run a bus from the center port station to cowboys stadium even though its right THERE. They do have a city run car service with very cheap rates. But a taxi does not a transit system make. Its such a pain to get to anything in Arlington or HEB for that matter

@starventure

18 күн бұрын

@@russianbear0027 People don't move to Arlington for mass transit. They know it has no mass transit, which makes it attractive to them. Keep the mass transit in the city and leave the suburbs out of it unless they specifically ask for it. Trying to cram it down their throats is not just a waste of time, but makes it tougher to get more built in the future.

@wren7300

9 күн бұрын

@@starventure Get more of what built?

@starventure

8 күн бұрын

@@wren7300 Mass transit.

@Tales2TellU

3 сағат бұрын

Local wisdom is that we'll never see good transit in Arlington because there's a General Motors plant there. Some of our previous mayors have tried to push for at least bus lines, but most attempts get shot down. It's a shame, because I'd really love more public transit options! 😢

Cool. I had no idea Dallas had so much.

Your pronunciation of Plano is golden 😂

A subway through downtown Dallas has been in planning in order to improve frequencies on all lines (the max is 15 min frequencies on all lines at once because of the downtown transit mall limiting capacity), but recently has been shelved in favor of building a few improvements to the downtown transit mall to accommodate 10 minute frequencies. I will hope for more light rail lines, but considering the current system has really consumed DARTs debt capacity, nothing new aside from the already under construction Silver Line is going to be opening any time soon :( That said, the current CEO has been really committed to improving the ridership experience. The bus network was redesigned for 20 minute frequencies (huge improvement for us), with plans to improve frequencies further when rail lines get improved frequency. Stations and trains regularly get cleaned every day, they just hired extra security so every train or every other train gets a security guard on board. It's been super nice.

@jeSuisbar

8 ай бұрын

The problem has been the stations. Dallas Dart surveyed its riders, most of them do not have a car (I believe it was 90%). Most stations are placed in low density including the TRE, A train & TEXrail, making it difficult to commute there. Take Trinity Mills, LBJ/Skillman, White Rock, Lake Highlands (prior) Arapaho, UD, Hidden Ridge & many more a placed in the middle of giant parking spots with rarely any density to go anywhere. Some stations for example, Downtown Carrollton & Downtown Rowlett are placed by a dangerous highways that is diffcult to cross to the retails, bars or restaurants without an UBER. I rode all lines, and I can tell that is the reason. Now, take for instance, San Diego trolley, just as sprawled. Google their trolley stations, Hazard, Fashion Valley, UCSD,SDSU, Old town, UTC & many more. Their stations are placed by retail store, malls, in univeristy campuses & the border. It does need an airport line though. This will help DART.

@nihouma11

8 ай бұрын

@@jeSuisbar I 1000% agree that land use is the biggest problem facing DART, but it's also something DART can't control directly. City of Dallas in particular has been very bad about encouraging TOD near stations (or even building sidewalks)

@jeSuisbar

8 ай бұрын

@@nihouma11 I think it’s a TX problem. Houston can’t get a rail separate LRT for its own trains. San Antonio doesn’t any rail at all. My thoughts are any high speed rail will be placed somewhere remote from civilization. While this is happening, many underdeveloped countries currently have an HSR. Indonesia 🇮🇩, Morocco 🇲🇦, Turkey 🇹🇷, Mexico (high speed commuter rail) & Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (being built by China). We’re lagging behind

Must try the Grapevine Vintage Railroad!!! Some excursions feature a “holdup”, where masked riders on horseback, get the train to stop and board the train. Instead of taking your money or belongings, they hand out coupons to area businesses. Also explore the Fort Worth Stockyards!!!

@ClassyWhale

11 күн бұрын

That sounds like a fun time!

One thing to note about DART's bus network. Around the time you visited (saying it was filmed in 2021), a new person on the DART board was Patrick Kennedy, an urbanist and local commentator who advocated moving in a different direction, got walkability to be a major concern, championed the growth of Oak Cliff and Deep Ellum, got the city to seriously consider removing the elevated highway between Downtown and Deep Ellum, AND once on the board, got DART to radically redesign the bus network in a similar manner to what Houston did. So some changes are certainly happening.

@Wolfey1231

11 ай бұрын

From what I have found out from talking to other passengers,DARTZoom is not a popular idea with all riders(mainly due to the route redesign). Not helping is that the quality of bus service also appears to have declined since then. This might only be an issue I have with DARTzoom,but it led to a lot of 2017 built buses being withdrawn from service after about 5 years in service(why those buses couldn't be used on lower frequency and lower ridership routes,I don't know)

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

Poor connector service with infrequent connecting bus service. Designed as transport for the poor. Little thought for more. Just serves to tell people they need something else or go away.

@jamesgriffin8354

Ай бұрын

@@whazzat8015 You are so off base! Have you even ridden on the system? I feel TOTALLY safe on DART and all kinds of folks rich and poor ride DART.

Thank you, young man.

Dallas has a lot of hope as some of the new people are surprisingly pro transit and nimby opposition is lighter than at least Austin (which granted, low bar.) Right now its not great because of odd location for the stops, but I can see that changing real quick

@ClassyWhale

11 ай бұрын

The receptionist at my hostel said she'd been living car free in Dallas, which now that I think about it was honestly a feat. But glad to hear there are more like her!

Thanks for the great video on the my current town's transit!

Next time you come to Denver, please come explore more of the RTD system, instead of being here for just a layover.

Great Video Enjoyed It 😊

YES! Thank you so much for making a video about DART! I love that someone *finally* made a video on DART, so thank you again! DART has been doing some upgrades on the system such as retrofitting the SLRVs with LED destination signs (the rollsigns you saw were getting really unreliable!), upgrading track, improving security and more, and is making a brand-new Silver Line commuter train in the north. Fun facts about the SLRVs: They were ordered in 5 orders (Fleet 50 through Fleet 54), the Fleet 50s and 51s (101-174) have GTO-VVVF inverters which have a distinct sound that sounds a bit like a car with a ton of gears, while the Fleet 52-54 have IGBT-VVVF inverters that kinda make a howling noise. They've got 750 and 700 horsepower respectively. I like the old trains more, they sound cooler! They started off as two-section trains without the middle car, then were upgraded in the late 2000s and early 2010s with the middle section. DART trains can go 70 mph (but are limited to 65 mph), and they have the honk, toot and ding that I talked about on the St. Louis video comment section. DART has also been making great moves on the bus network improvements with the Tier 2 network, improving frequencies and route coverage. There's a whole lot more to talk about but I'd be here typing all day. Glad you could come down south to Dallas, Texas!

@uzin0s256

10 ай бұрын

DART is shit. I tried using it. Its soooo empty. The stations are litterally meant to be accessed by car.

@DFWRailVideos

10 ай бұрын

@@uzin0s256 it’s a lot better than most transit systems in the USA, and it’s getting better. You’ve gotta be more optimistic.

@uzin0s256

10 ай бұрын

@@DFWRailVideos its really bad.. Plano doesnt even havbe access to it. I live in SF amd BART here is so much better.

@DFWRailVideos

10 ай бұрын

@@uzin0s256 wow that explains a lot. You’re from SF, I’m from DFW. I live near Plano and they have two stations and pretty nice bus coverage. You live a couple thousand miles away. Please don’t make assumptions about our rail and bus nextwork without coming here and riding it within the past couple years. Also Classy Whale literally explains that the Red and Orange lines go to Plano. Watch the video as well!

@uzin0s256

10 ай бұрын

@@DFWRailVideosNo buut i lived there for a year and that was probabally the worst one of my life.

Biggest problem with DART and TRE is that all of the stops are surrounded by surface parking and little else. On the Orange/Red lines, Lover's Station literally lets out in a Office Depot parking lot.

Martinez Mexican restaurant in Dallas also invented the frozen margarita (as we know it today) from a repurposed soft-serve ice cream machine.

Nice to see it's finally starting to improve

5:05 This frame answers your question. The music is to try and keep homeless folks from sleeping there

This was really great. Thanks for showing off DFW 👍

Yes but need to do better about building density around stations ... Too many parking lots

I asked a security guard about the opera thing once, and he said that the 7-11 there played it because it kept vagabonds away. I don't know if that's true, but it would be a funny reason if it was.

Another oddity that doesn’t help ridership is they do special extra trains for various events like concerts. But you have to dig to find those schedules.

I ride the Dallas Streetcar (when it's operational), whenever I gig in Bishop Arts district. I can confirm the system.....exists sometimes, and could be so much more than it is

@traindude70

Ай бұрын

Don't buy 1st generation prototype trains...

If you know about the politics of DART, the reason why the bus service lags behind other cities is because of the political fight between the City of Dallas and the 12 other Member cities which pay into the service. The City of Dallas has been fighting for the bus service for years and the Suburbs like Plano and Addison are saying that if we don't have rail service, they constantly threaten to leave DART. The Suburbs also control most of the seats on the DART board. So it's sort of a balancing act between Dallas and the others.

@metroidnerd9001

11 ай бұрын

I mean, there is some DART rail in Plano, but not much. Allen refusing to join kind of kneecaps the Red Line from expanding northward. They really ought to build a line up the DNT and/or west across Plano to try to service the Legacy West area. As the northern suburbs continue to grow, I think expanding DART to accomodate them will help alleviate some of the traffic issues that come with it.

I do think they need to merge it all into one major Transit agency, serving Denton, Dallas and Fort Worth. And it should operate every bus, Commuter Rail, Train, Light Rail, Trolley, Streetcar in the area.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

Oh, you mean a "system"?

Can't wait for the North East-East Corridor series!

DART's rail network is practically a city in the Northeast compared to other Texas cities. Some other notes: There's a 3.5 mile stretch of a former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in downtown that was originally intended for DART but was converted into a pedestrian trail, now known as the Katy Trail. It runs from Victory Park to Uptown and is worth a visit if you've ever in Dallas. It has paved lanes for bicycles that are separated from the walking lanes. The T&P station in Fort Worth, in addition to operating passenger rail, was converted to have loft apartments during the renovation.

@metroidnerd9001

11 ай бұрын

I didn't know that they had once planned to use the Katy Trail for DART. I can see why they didn't go with it, though, since it's basically just a connector. Heck, the first "connector" line they're actually building is the Silver Line, over 20 years after DART first opened. I think that legally, they still have the right to convert the Katy and SoPac Trails into rail lines, but I don't think they're going to do that to either trail anytime soon. The Katy Trail actually runs past Uptown to SMU and almost to Mockingbird, but there isn't a great pedestrian crossing over 75 yet. It's one of the few barriers from being able to bike all the way from Downtown Dallas to Frisco exclusively on bike trails.

@whazzat8015

2 ай бұрын

@@metroidnerd9001 NO THE KATY IS FOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS. DART is for the homeless

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

KATY trail is Dallas saying recreational amenities for upscale real estate developers is more important than public transportation.

“Play-no” (I’m a DFW local) 5:42 Also that one singular nip into Plano is basically all you get in Collin County. Frisco has absolutely nothing, not sure about McKinney/Allen/Prosper but it would be a DART bus stop there. The parking lots are because people have to come in from other cities a lot and it’s kinda obvious most places are completely built around cars

I forgot about the M LINE 🤦🏾‍♂️. I want to ride it again

Dallas Streetcar may be mostly pointless, but I did manage to find a signle point for its existence. Back in 2021, I took it to get to the Methodist Dallas Medical Center to get my COVID Vaccine on the first day I was eligible. After getting my second dose, I have had no reason to ever ride it again. I mostly ride on the northern half of the Red Line, but I occasionally have a need for the other lines, too.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

Streetcar is just more of Dallas saying recreational amenities for upscale real estate developers is more important than public transportation.

Great video! The reason why the Amtrak Heartland Flyer doesn’t run to Dallas is because it would basically be running directly alongside the Amtrak Texas Eagle. Both the HF and TxE arrive in Fort Worth around 12:30-1:15pm, so it’s easier to catch the TxE as a connection train to Dallas, rather than run two trains right after one another to the same station

I’m going to Dallas this month to ride all the trains!!

As a DART rail operator, you’re too kind to us. Be more critical!

@ClassyWhale

7 ай бұрын

I mean y'all have the worst smelling trains of any system I've ridden inside or outside the US - that enough realism for you?

@donntrotter

7 ай бұрын

@@ClassyWhale you’re not wrong.

The problem with the rail lines is that they go to the suburbs. Most people from there drive. If the rails went around actual Dallas it would be faster and more efficient. Instead you have to take rail and buses to get around Dallas.

Always appreciate it when there are videos of my hometown's transit system, but it still amazes me when someone get's on the train and is surprised when they smell cigarette smoke or see someone eating on the train. Like, I've ridden Dart every now and then and have gotten used to seeing people essentially breaking all the rules while riding specifically on the light rail. It almost seems that there is always someone one getting on the train just to smoke weed or just regular cigarettes which, in an enclosed train car, you will smell it and it will linger after they smoke it or leave. I mostly blame Dart police having horrible response time or no response at all to reports of someone smoking on the train. That applies to all the rules that get broken with maybe the exception of someone getting in a fight or a medical emergency. I hear that they plan to have security guards in each train car to enforce the rules now, now that is something that Dart has been needing for a long time. Dart is already amazing considering that most of the US doesn't have great transit, add clean trains and busses with rules being enforced and I'm sure more people will use it more. To an extent, it already has.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

DART trains are a rolling homeless shelter, filthy and feels unsafe to ride. IMAGE IS OF A BAD EXPERIENCE. Vandalized non working ticket kiosks. Blind zombie imitation "police" , Dirty station with sleeping cleanup crews on their phones more than their brooms. DART thinks rider safety and security is an app, customer service an email.

8:59 That’s because it is newer. They just opened the route in 2019. The SLVRs are much older.

roses are red, violets are blue there's trains and trams in my playlist two there ya go, that somehow rhymed :))

The classical music in the station is played by the 7-11 that is right there, as a means of keeping the "undesirables" from congregating. They want to push the problem down the (rail) road.

I could drive to Dallas but this makes me almost want to fly there for my next convention.

Just FYI Plano is pronounced play-no, not plah-no. Also, Buckner station is named for the road the green line terminates at, not a town. I doubt you could’ve know that without being local though, great summary of the network otherwise!

@ClassyWhale

11 ай бұрын

I always forget that Texans speak spanglish!

@Texasred63

11 ай бұрын

I had a good laugh when he said Plan-O instead of Plano like PLAIN O people. Also Buckner was named after Robert Cook Buckner who opened the Buckner Childrens Home in 1880.

This was cool to see since I live in SW Arlington with no easy access to any of these lines and have never experienced them while living here. Kinda sucks since the traffic is horrible. A shame to see so many empty seats but makes sense when there's no easy access, DFW makes no logical sense when it comes to transportation

…and I happen to live in a city right in the middle of this without any public transit.

slowly tuning out until that sharyo bell at 4:00 activated my bostonian self like a sleeer agent

Nice video, thank you! Also, strange hearing the Stadler door beeper in a video from America. Greetings from Switzerland.

@OliversElevators

2 ай бұрын

Omg we love the Stadler trains! I’m from Austin, which has some of the first Stadler trains built for the USA, and they’re some of the nicest trains I’ve been on. Denton, Dallas, and Fort Worth jumped on the Stadler bandwagon shortly after Austin and I’m so glad they did - once people realize how nice Stadler’s trains are, they’re going to want more of them. Texas is the unexpected hotspot for Stadler rolling stock in the United States, and I’m here for it!

@Som09mer

2 ай бұрын

@@OliversElevators glad to hear you like them. I use them daily for my commute from school and work. Hopefully more people get to ride them around the USA. Will be interestimg to see, how the double deckers from Caltrain will be recieved by passengers

Such beautiful transit

I see my favorite MATA car(4614 "Margaret") in the thumbnail and i like it.

Would love to see you do Newark NJ

lets hope.

Tre Will always have a place in my heart since they operated 2 ex amt f40s 310 and 330. Plus in 2022 I saw a TRE car on a CP freight in valois probably on its way back to texas

As a Plano resident it’s pronounced pl-A-no with a short a sound

Now I am thinking about making a stopover in DFW for the next time in the USA just to see the DART trains, interesting and somehow appealing... Caught an error: I meant Dallas Ft Worth, not Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County...

You forgot the Dallas Streetcar, the modern streetcar system that goes from the EBJ Union Station thur Oak Cliff.

@MatthewBanks100

3 ай бұрын

It's......imperfect. I use it a couple of times a month to get to Bishop Arts, and while I'm thankful it exists, I wish it were better maintained, more frequent, and had fewer interfaces with cars

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

@@MatthewBanks100 Streetcar is just more of Dallas saying recreational amenities for upscale real estate developers is more important than public transportation.

I've read that you guys ordered the FLIRT160 from Stadler, a 100mph fast mid-high-speed rail vehicle. I ride it regularly from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart. Personally I find it very comfortable, smooth travel and isolated, you barely notice the speed. Especially for connecting two close cities quickly, it's the perfect choice. I mean, you could go for the FLIRT200 for 124mph, but that's more expensive, needs more expensive rail tracks, and is only worth it, if you have longer segments without a stop. PS: I'm stupid. I just noticed, that yours is the FLIRT Diesel, which only makes 79 mph. Yep, that's only normal regional speed, no mid-high-speed. But I hope that still the train is comfortable to ride in.

@ClassyWhale

8 ай бұрын

It was a lovely ride, much nicer than the DART trains!

DART is the largest LRV operator with 96 miles, but LA could have recently taken over this title, I don't know. The reason the Amtrack train to OKC doesn't go to Dallas is that it is way out of its way and there is another Amtrak train that goes from Dallas to Fort Worth as well as the TRE commuter rail. One exciting prospect in the future of Dallas and DART is the D2 subway downtown, will be several new under ground stations relieving the bottleneck of traffic the downtown section has become with all lines converging. Soon we will have the new Silver Line commuter rail, the D2 Subway and some movement on high-speed rail between Dallas and Fort Worth as well as Houston, but high speed rail has quite the uphill battles to be seen through to completion.

@hrgx1981

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the D2 Subway has been delayed indefinitely, having been removed from their 20 year financial plan last August.

@cabebishop

Ай бұрын

@@hrgx1981 I know, this makes me super sad. Leave it to Dallas to dangle candy in front of children to only take it away at the last second.

I wish I could ride the M line trolley but I can’t because it’s not wheelchair accessible, thankfully the rest of the trains are

I've always thought DART was cool. I remember visiting DFW back when I lived in Austin (former regular capmetro rider here) and being pleasantly surprised at how good the trains were, and how badly I wish Austin could say the same. Glad it's getting some attention in the transit space because Dallas has really been trying with their system and I think one day it's going to be one of the best in the country.

5:40 (Play-no)

The reason why the Heartland Flyer doesn't continue to Dallas is because the layover facilities are in Ft. Worth and would require a dead move. BUT, the Big Game Train continues to Dallas for the TX-OU game at the state fair. Also during the state fair and especially on game days DART runs a wild service pattern which is far too complicated to describe

@jamesgriffin8354

4 ай бұрын

Amtrak's Texas Eagle stops in both Dallas and Fort Worth so technically you can travel by train from Dallas to Oklahoma City.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

@@jamesgriffin8354 You can travel with it to Azerbaijan if you try hard enough. Nobody does it except as a novelty. Nobody does it twice.

5:02 opera music so to stop people from loitering. like the guy behind you

@NealCMH

11 ай бұрын

It is always assumed that everybody hates Classical Music and Opera and will not stay there to listen to it. I have seen it used like that in other places. Some of us actually like it.

Philadelphia is in the uk look it up

Fun fact about City Place Uptown: It has elevators that travel at a 45° angle, like a funicular.

6:28 Picking nits - (a) "PLAY-noh" and ("rao-LET").

safety and hygiene(sitting in urine soaked seats) are the two biggest issues.

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

And here I thought it was the screaming psychotic homeless folks.

Unfortunately, part of the stink in the DART trains is from... uh... a certain yellow liquid. There's a reason I only stand when I ride the train even if it's empty, and it has to do with a run-in I had with a damp seat. Fortunately they're replacing the cloth seats with plastic but the trains are still old and disgusting.

BTW, Plano is pronounced "Play-no"

The light rail cars are better looking than the San Jose light rail. But that isn't saying much.

Play-noh

If you end up in Houston hit me up, I'm a local urbanist and know some esoteric weirdness about transit in Houston

What I find interesting about DART in particular was how their LRV units were modified to become become the super Light Rail Vehicles (SLRV) that you see today. A C-Unit was added to the existing A and B Unit with an extra set of axles to accommodate thus adding to passenger capacity and level boarding for ADA accessibility. The cost to convert every unit to a SLRV was cheaper than going on and buying all new units. And as a St. Louis Operator, I have to say they use the same whistle as our LRV units 😎

the announcement is because many people smoked on Public transport or so, rich people think

Texas isn’t really known for good transit, yet I hope things will get better in response to the simply massive growth in all of its cities! I’m really excited what the future will hold with Capital Metro, The Silver line and D2 Subway, Texas Central High Speed Rail, better Amtrak service, and possibly more we don’t even know about…

The opera is homeless prevention and it accually works really well.

To be honest America metros can never beat singapore metro but at least they are trying I still think Washington DC metro is the best New York and philipdaphia metro to dirty and New York too many crimes and scams

Those aren't cigarettes but spliffs.

Forth worth has the yard. You can ride the to Dallas or wait for the eagle

cant wait

Dallas's big issue is they don't believe in the Field of Dreams quote, "If you build it, they will come." It more like, "Once they come, we will build more," but the problem is most people don't ride DART because of the inconvenience of waiting for the next train or bus and the further you get out from the city center the less frequently the buses are and the earlier service ends for the day. People want more service options, but DART won't build them until ridership goes up enough to justify the cost of expansion. It's a nobody wins scenario.

You pronounced Plano wrong. It's pronounced "Plain-O" Like "This isn't a special o, it's a plain o."

How is Dallas street car pointless ?

@whazzat8015

Ай бұрын

Streetcar is just more of Dallas saying recreational amenities for upscale real estate developers is more important than public transportation.

@traindude70

Ай бұрын

It runs from almost downtown to almost the bishop arts district in oak cliff, it also almost connects to a hospital. Too many politicians involved in it's construction

@214dude2

3 күн бұрын

It’s not pointless. It’s the start of an entire streetcar network. The Dallas Streetcar and the M-Line Trolley are planned to be connected via the downtown Central Link. The city also wants to build a streetcar down Ross Ave to Lower Greenville. The streetcar network is designed to connect nodes that DART rail misses and feed them into the DART rail system.

They can make Transit work they have to subway tunnels.

Quick note: Plano is pronounced as if it were spelled Plaino

@seamusmckeon9109

11 ай бұрын

Nice video!

5:40 it is not pronounced plan-o 😂😂 it’s pronounced like plane-o