Glenn Heights Park & Ride
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Glenn Heights Park & Ride | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 1200 E. Bear Creek Rd. Glenn Heights, Texas 75154 |
| Owned by | Dallas Area Rapid Transit |
| Connections | DART Route 306 (M-F) Glenn Heights GoLink Zone (M-Sun) STARNow Cedar Hill (M-F) STARNow DeSoto (M-F) STARNow Duncanville (M-F) |
| Construction | |
| Parking | 595 spaces |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Other information | |
| Website | Glenn Heights Park & Ride |
| History | |
| Opened | September 16, 1991[1] |
Glenn Heights Park & Ride is a small park and ride lot in Glenn Heights, Texas. Located west of I-35E, it is the southernmost transit facility in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system.
The lot is primarily served by the Glenn Heights Express bus, which provides weekday peak-only service to Downtown Dallas, Dallas Market Center, and the Southwestern Medical District.[2]
The station is also a transfer point for two microtransit services. Glenn Heights GoLink, operated by DART, services the city of Glenn Heights and UNT Dallas station,[3] while STARNow, operated by STAR Transit, services the nearby cities of Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Duncanville.[4]
The lot contains 595 parking spaces and 4 open-air passenger shelters.[5] The lot does not have an air-conditioned shelter or a station attendant.
History
[edit]The station opened on September 16, 1991 as a replacement for a temporary park and ride closer to I-35E.[1]
In 2011, in an effort to improve parking availability, DART announced that Glenn Heights Park & Ride would be added to an upcoming paid-parking program.[6] The program, later dubbed "Fair Share Parking", would charge a daily parking fee to riders that did not live in a DART member city;[7] it was also set to be used at Parker Road and North Carrollton/Frankford.[6] However, when the program was rolled out on April 2, 2012, it was only implemented at the rail stations, not at Glenn Heights.[8] Fair Share Parking ended two years later, and while it was expanded to two more stations in the interim, Glenn Heights was not one of them.[7]
In 2023, DART installed two EV charging stations in the lot.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "METRO REPORT". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. 1991-11-14. pp. 34A. Retrieved 2023-11-19 – via NewsBank.
- ^ "306 Route Map" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. 2023-01-23. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-07-16. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- ^ "Glenn Heights". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2023-12-19. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
- ^ "Connections to DART". STAR Transit. Archived from the original on 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ^ "Glenn Heights Park & Ride". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2023-07-16.
- ^ a b Lindenberger, Michael A. (2011-04-13). "DART OKs parking fee at Glenn Heights". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B1 – via NewsBank.
- ^ Lindenberger, Michael A. (2012-04-13). "Many avoiding DART pay lots". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B3 – via NewsBank.
- ^ "DART installs EV charging stations at Glenn Heights Park & Ride and Illinois Stations". Mass Transit. Endeavor Business Media. 2023-09-01. Archived from the original on 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
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