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Glenn Heights Park & Ride
General information
Location1200 E. Bear Creek Rd.
Glenn Heights, Texas 75154
Owned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit
ConnectionsDART Route 306 (M-F)
Glenn Heights GoLink Zone (M-Sun)
STARNow Cedar Hill (M-F)
STARNow DeSoto (M-F)
STARNow Duncanville (M-F)
Construction
Parking595 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Website Glenn Heights Park & Ride
History
OpenedSeptember 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

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

  1. ^ a b "METRO REPORT". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. 1991-11-14. pp. 34A. Retrieved 2023-11-19 – via NewsBank.
  2. ^ "306 Route Map" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. 2023-01-23. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Glenn Heights". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  4. ^ "Connections to DART". STAR Transit. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
  5. ^ "Glenn Heights Park & Ride". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2023-07-16.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b "Fair Share Parking". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  8. ^ Lindenberger, Michael A. (2012-04-13). "Many avoiding DART pay lots". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B3 – via NewsBank.
  9. ^ "DART installs EV charging stations at Glenn Heights Park & Ride and Illinois Stations". Mass Transit. Endeavor Business Media. 2023-09-01. Retrieved 2023-11-19.

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