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Downtown is centrally located and accessible from all points
in the region through multiple modes of transportation.
Air
- Downtown is 17 miles or 25 minutes from D/FW International
Airport, the third busiest airport in the world with over 2,000
daily departures and arrivals serving almost 53 million
passengers annually.
- Love Field, a central hub for business commuter travel
is located just 3 miles or 10 minutes from Downtown. Serving
7 million passengers with over 200 daily departures, it
is home to Southwest Airlines.
- The Dallas Convention Center Heliport is a 169,000 square
foot public-use facility that allows simultaneous use by
five helicopters and two vertical-take off-and-landing aircraft.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Downtown is the center of the DART network - bus, light
rail, commuter, HOV lanes, paratransit services and rideshare
programs - that moves over 200,000 people daily within a
700-mile service area.
- In Downtown:
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An estimated 45,000 employees use
DART to commute to work.
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There are six Downtown stations -
Convention Center, Union Station, West End, Akard,
St. Paul and Pearl – in the current 44-mile light
rail system
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Monday-Saturday, the Trinity Railway
Express (TRE) commuter rail links Union station in
Downtown Dallas with two stations in downtown Fort
Worth.
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DART offers a reduced light rail fare
of fifty cents for travel between the Pearl and Convention
Center stations; tickets are good for up to 90 minutes.
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Employer Pass programs are available
for discounted annual and monthly transit passes
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- A 17.5-mile light rail line from Downtown’s West
End station is scheduled to begin service to Northwest Highway
in 2010 and to Carrollton in 2011.
- A 10.2-mile light rail extension from Downtown’s
Pearl station to Deep Ellum and Fair Park is scheduled to
open in 2010; the Pleasant Grove extension is scheduled
for 2011.
Highways & Streets
- Downtown is the focus of five major highways and expressways
used by over one million vehicles each day: I-30 R.L. Thornton;
I-45 Julius Schepps; I-35E Stemmons; Spur 366 Woodall Rodgers
and US75 North Central Expressway.
- Major street improvement projects were recently completed
including a $1.5 million resurfacing of Elm and Commerce,
from Industrial Boulevard to Central Expressway.
- $3.5 million was provided by the city for a streetscape
enhancement project to make five north/south streets (Field,
Akard, Ervay, St. Paul and Harwood) more pedestrian friendly.
M-Line Streetcar Service
- Restored vintage streetcars provide free daily travel
along McKinney Avenue from the DART Cityplace Station to
the Downtown (Ross at St. Paul).
- Travel times are every 15 minutes during peak and lunch
hours, every half hour off-peak hours and weekends. Operating
hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturdays and 12:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays.
Parking
- There are over 70,000 off-street parking spaces in Downtown.
Click here for the Downtown Parking Map.
- The City Park program at the Metropolitan, DalPark and Ross
Garages provides discount parking all week. Metropolitan
is located on Elm, between Akard and Field; DalPark is located
on Commerce at Ervay; Ross is located on the corner of Ross and Griffin.
| Monday-Friday |
5:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
$1/hr, $7 max |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:00
a.m. |
$2 flat fee |
| Saturday-Sunday |
all day |
$2 flat fee |
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Pegasus Parking Program
- Central Dallas Transportation Management Association
operates the Pegasus Parking ®Program with the North
Texas Tollway Authority.
- Using Tolltag® technology, the program offers cashless
access to six parking garages, Love Field, DFW International
Airport and four toll roads including the North Dallas Tollway
and George Bush Turnpike.
Pedestrianways
- Two miles of underground and one mile of elevated pedestrian
walkways give Downtown employees and visitors weekday access
to nearly 250 restaurants, stores and retail services.
Planning for the Future
In addition to DART’s plans to extend its current 44-mile
light rail system to 80 miles, Downtown is planning for the
future.
- DART’s 2030 Transit System Plan to meet regional
transit needs will also help determine the second light
rail alignment in Downtown.
- Project Pegasus, the Texas Department of Transportation
plan to redesign I-30 and I-35E near Downtown, is underway.
The project was created to ease traffic congestion in the
I-30 Canyon, I-30/I-35E Mixmaster and lower Stemmons Freeway
area.
- Designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, a $73
million “signature” bridge, a six-lane extension
of Woodall Rodgers Freeway, will span the Trinity River
between Downtown and Oak Cliff by 2008.
DOWNTOWNDALLAS
1412 Main, Suite 2500
Dallas, TX 75202
info@downtowndallas.org
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