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Dallas — Streetcar Grant Announced

Rail Transit Online, July 2010

Dallas is one of five cities that received part of $105 million allocated for streetcar projects by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Urban Circulator Grant Program, which is designed to help cities better co-ordinate transportation, housing and commercial development.

The competitive grants were announced by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff at a July 8 news conference in Washington. The Dallas project supported is:

  • Dallas Olive Avenue/St Paul Street Loop: $4.9 million to build a 0.65-mi. (1 km) extension of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority's heritage streetcar line to the existing DART St. Paul light rail station and to the MATA Olive Street extension, forming a reversing loop that will allow the use of single-ended cars. A contract to build the MATA extension is expected to be awarded in August.

This was the second round of streetcar grants from the federal government, the first having been made last February under the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. Those recipients included Tucson, New Orleans, Portland and Dallas.

"Streetcars are making a comeback because cities across America are recognizing that they can restore economic development downtown — giving citizens the choice to move between home, shopping and entertainment withoutever looking for a parking space," said FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff.

Several high-profile projects were unsuccessful in both funding competitions including those in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Sacramento.

 

 


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