DART - Silver Line

Print Feedback

Font Size: + -

OVERVIEW

The DART Silver Line is a 26-mile regional rail service that traverses seven cities – Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson, and Plano – with a final connection at DFW Airport. The Silver Line crosses three counties (Collin, Dallas, Tarrant) and provides a service that will improve accessibility to major employment and educational opportunities in the area while supporting economic development.

Passengers can expect Silver Line revenue service to begin in late 2025 to early 2026, with vehicle testing beginning in Q3 2024.

For more details, including weekly construction schedules, please visit www.dart.org/silverline

Map showing alignment of DART Silver Line rail through the seven cities it traverses

SILVER LINE PROJECT AT A GLANCE

11,200
Anticipated 2040 Weekday Riders

210,000
Jobs within 1/2 Mile of Corridor

2025-26
Anticipated Opening Year

10
Regional Rail Stations

58 mins
DFW Airport to Plano

26 mi
Through 7 cities

$2.098B
Project Budget

4
Rail Connections (Orange, Green & Red LRT, and TEXRail)

RICHARDSON SERVED BY TWO SILVER LINE STATIONS

CITYLINE/BUSH STATION (Fact Sheet)

1,240 Anticipated Daily Riders in 2040
1,100+ Parking Spaces
Projected Travel Time
- 51 min. to DFW Airport Terminal B
- 8 min. to Shiloh Road Station in Plano
Pedestrian Connections
- CityLine mixed use development, Cotton Belt Regional Trail
Transit Connections
- DART Red/Orange Line, DART Buses, GoLink

UT DALLAS STATION (Fact Sheet)

1,205 Anticipated Daily Riders in 2040
200+ Parking Spaces
Projected Travel Time
- 44 min. to DFW Airport Terminal B
- 15 min. to Shiloh Road Station in Plano
Pedestrian Connections
- UT Dallas campus (30,000+ students), multi-family housing, future TOD development, Cotton Belt Regional Trail
Transit Connections
- DART Buses

STATION OVERVIEW / POINTS OF INTEREST

Richardson is home of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), which is ranked as the #1 best value public university in Texas on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Value Colleges. Also named as a Best Value College by The Princeton Review for the last seven years, UTD is a public research university with more than 30,000 students and more than 140 academic degrees including top-ranked programs in science, technology, engineering, arts, and management.

Experience some of the country’s top rated and most anticipated events, award winning fine arts festivals, concerts and fireworks shows. In the City of Richardson, you’ll find endless possibilities of engagement for everyone in the family. Rich in culture and arts, the City of Richardson is the perfect place to stop and take it all in. Featuring the CityLine/Bush and UT Dallas Stations, Richardson is a place where commuters can move to all points on the compass and have limitless transport possibilities.

SILVER LINE REGIONAL RAIL

COMMUNITY EVENTS

DART and its contractors continuously work to keep the communities involved in the Silver Line project updated and aware of the commuter rail project. DART hosts Biannual Community Meetings in each of the cities served by the Silver Line. Other community events, like lunch and learns and pop-up events, occur throughout the project to offer opportunities to learn more and ask questions. For details on upcoming community events, visit www.awhsilverline.com/richardson.