Cityplace (DART station)

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Cityplace
DART light rail station
Station statistics
Address 2711 North Haskell Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75204
Coordinates 32°48′20″N 96°47′35″W / 32.805621°N 96.793154°W / 32.805621; -96.793154Coordinates: 32°48′20″N 96°47′35″W / 32.805621°N 96.793154°W / 32.805621; -96.793154
Lines      Red Line      Blue Line      Orange Line (future)
Connections DART Routes 36, 51, 409, and M-Line Streetcar
Structure Underground
Platforms island platform
Other information
Opened 18 December 2000
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Owned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Services
Preceding station   Dallas Area Rapid Transit   Following station
Red Line
toward Ledbetter
Blue Line

Cityplace Station is a DART light rail station located in the Cityplace neighborhood of Oak Lawn Dallas, Texas (USA) underneath Cityplace Tower at Haskell Avenue and North Central Expressway (US 75). As an infill DART station, it opened on 18 December 2000 as the first public subway station in the Southwest (the Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth was a privately-owned subway).[1]

The station is tri-level in design, reaching depths of 120 feet beneath North Central Expressway. The south end of the platforms are reached from the surface via 213-steps, three pairs of escalators or elevators (3 traditional and 2 inclined elevators).[2] The station is shared between the Red and Blue lines. The east entrance is located at the base of Cityplace Tower, serving that tower and surrounding retail. The west entrance serves West Village, the M-line Streetcar and Uptown area. Original station plans allowed for another set of entrances at the north end of the platforms, which could serve future development north of Haskell Boulevard.

Cityplace remains the only underground station on the DART rail system (the nearby Knox-Henderson Station was deferred after community opposition).

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.dart.org/about/history.asp DART History, retrieved January 18, 2010
  2. ^ http://www.dart.org/about/history.asp DART History, retrieved January 18, 2010

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