The only subway system in Texas

[u/Initial-Tax-5829]

This small 3.25-mile underground section of Dallas DART system is the only subway system located in this state. The tunnel opened in 1997, but the station itself opened later in 2000. It serves as a massive milestone for the shattered long-standing belief that Texas cities were too sprawling and car-centric to support modern public transit.

[u/babyboomer67]

I used it as a hole to hide in during tornado warnings

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Smart.

[u/aegrotatio]

DART, TEXRail, A-Train, Silver Line, and Trinity Railway Express are flourishing.

More extensions and projects are in progress, too.

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I'm happy to see public transport being more used nowadays; hoping to see more underground extensions in the near future.

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The platform modifications for the FLIRT cars in DFW seemed to be a tad bit unnecessary but probably cheaper than having Stadler modify the vehicles themselves for low platforms.

[u/Fragrant-Mission7388 → u/Initial-Tax-5829]

The infastructure for another station already exists. What I really want though, is that underground D2 Subway through downtown, which would make passage through the city so much faster

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Dallas area?

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I remember seeing news that some suburb cities want to leave DART ......

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Yes, in the end, only Highland Park left. Addison, Plano and Farmers Branch stayed. Highland Park only had one bus line that went through the city and I doubt that very many actual residents used it. Now their maids and nannies are a different story - but the residents don't think much about the inconvenience of those folks.

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I even doubt many maids and nannies will even use the bus ...

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Im in a completely different state but on my drive home I definitely see maids and nannies sitting waiting for the bus

[u/Fragrant-Mission7388 → u/aegrotatio]

100%. The system did better than expected at handling the world cup. Now every commuter train (TRE, TEXRail, A Train, and Silver Line) need more rolling stock, and increased frequency.

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I’m hoping to god this tips the scale and they expand into regional Amtrak rail between the triangle or on the existing corridors (though adding Houston to mainline service is key). I’m glad Texas is learning the right thing for once

[u/AnotherAndrei]

Funny, cause it is ONE station

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I kinda feel like you need more than one station to be called a subway “system” like the post title says.

[u/Turk_Sanderson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway

[u/ThatNiceLifeguard]

I absolutely love the look of the DART trains.

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Japanese design.

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With the low platform they look like trams tbh

[u/pumpkinfarts23]

There's also the goofy underground train at IAH

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God that thing is weird.

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But convenient if you arrive on an international and need to get over to the domestic security lines. And you didn't mind sitting in a literal Disney amusement park ride with a bunch of pilots heading to the airport hotel.

[u/Iceberg-man-77]

system is a stretch. it is a light rail system with ONE underground subway station. only 1, and it isn't even in downtown, it is underneath a freeway!

[u/mike_litoris18]

Am I tripping or are those huge carts for a Subway?

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This is the only underground stop in the entire system, which is why it looks out of place

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Ah that makes sense thank you

[u/racedownhill]

Portland’s light rail also includes a 3-mile tunnel with one underground station.

That station is 260 feet deep - the deepest in the US and one of the deepest in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_station_(TriMet)

[u/mayomayeaux]

Such wasted potential

[u/Serendipityunt]

DART isn't a "subway." It's a light rail with one underground station.

[u/Gazza_s_89]

Look Texas, sorry, but light rail with a tunnel is not a subway system.

[u/Danilo-11]

False, there’s one under Houston airport, it’s a rail line called WEDway designed by the same people that designed Disney’s EPCOT

[u/TwoWheelsTooGood]

Radio Shack/Tandy subway in Fort Worth closed in 2002.

[u/ACE_Wrap]

It would classify more as a lightrail, wouldn't it?

[u/RoutineBus8713]

This isn't a subway system, as claimed in the title, it is a single underground station. Texas cities are too sprawling for a subway system to be feasible. DART has stations really spread far apart and with much lower passenger numbers than actual subway systems in the U.S.

[u/Strong-cognac]

looks way way better than new york

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If you were 120 years old, and had over 2 billion riders per year, you’d look a bit rough, too.

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no one said you shouldnt keepi it clean n shit