Why is The T proposing to build and operate a passenger rail line? Why doesn The T just add more buses to its existing bus service or provide some other transit improvements?
The T completed a Strategic Plan in 2005 that calls for implementing more passenger rail service in Tarrant County. The Strategic Plan involved many Tarrant County residents, and the most frequently suggested transit improvement was rail. The T also completed in 2006 an analysis of various transit improvements in this Southwest-to-Northeast Corridor. The results of the Alternatives Analysis (AA), was a recommendation that The T build a passenger rail line along the identified route. Bus service enhancements also were considered during the AA, and some enhancements to existing service, such as more frequent rail feeder service–will be implemented along with the proposed passenger rail service. However, passenger rail was the preferred technology because it provided reliable travel time and travel time savings along corridors that, even with major roadway improvements, were forecast to have significant highway congestion over the next two or three decades.
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- Why is The T proposing to build and operate a passenger rail line? Why doesn The T just add more buses to its existing bus service or provide some other transit improvements?
- Why is The T proposing to build and operate a passenger rail line? Why doesn’t The T just add more buses to its existing bus service or provide some other transit improvements?
- How will the Master Plan affect the Wolf River Greenway and the existing CSX rail line/potential future greenline?
