NABI 40-LFW Gen III/CNG 41117

Location: Commerce Street at Akard Street, Dallas, TX
Operator of Vehicle: Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
Date of Photo: November 12, 2021

This month marks the one year anniversary of the launch of “DARTZoom”, the Dallas bus network’s redesign.  That redesign, like others in recent years in cities such as Baltimore and Houston, is meant to increase the frequency of service while reducing travel times across the network.  I visited Dallas for the first time in November of 2021, at which time the original bus network was still in place.  One of the first things that becomes apparent very quickly in planning a trip to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is that things are very spread out and many things simply aren’t close enough to transit service to be truly transit accessible.  As a result, Dallas has one of the largest light rail networks in the country by virtue of the area it is trying to serve, even though it isn’t an area that one thinks of as having robust public transit.

Have you been on Dallas’s buses since the network redesign was implemented?

For more photos of DART buses, please click here.