Forest/Jupiter station

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Forest/Jupiter
Forrest & Jupiter DART station.JPG
General information
Location3232 Forest Lane
Garland, Texas
Coordinates 32°54′29″N96°40′46″W / 32.90806°N 96.67944°W / 32.90806; -96.67944
System DART light rail station
Owned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Connections Bus-logo.svg DART : 22, 245, and 247
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking563 spaces [1]
Bicycle facilities4 lockers, [2] 1 rack
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedNovember 18, 2002 (2002-11-18) [3]
Services
Preceding station Logo Dallas Area Rapid Transit.svg DART Following station
LBJ/Skillman
toward UNT Dallas
Blue Line Downtown Garland
toward Downtown Rowlett
Location
Forest/Jupiter station

Forest/Jupiter station is a DART light rail station in Garland, Texas. The station is located in western Garland at the intersection of Forest Lane and Jupiter Road. It is served by the Blue Line. [1]

Contents

The station serves a large industrial corridor (including facilities for Sherwin-Williams and Kraft Heinz) and the Garland Independent School District administration building. A neighborhood 2⁄3 mile (1.1 km) north of the station contains the Walnut Creek Branch of Garland's Nicholson Memorial Library System. [1]

History

Plans for a station at the Forest/Jupiter intersection date back to DART's first rail plan in 1983. The station would be built on an existing freight corridor constructed by the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. [4] A more detailed plan of the corridor in 1997 proposed that the station and the crossings over Forest and Jupiter be elevated; [5] ultimately, the station was constructed at-grade, but the crossings remained elevated.

The Blue Line was extended to both Forest/Jupiter and Downtown Garland on November 18, 2002. [3] The station was decorated with stylized plows and gearworks, as well as a 25-foot (7.6 m) wind-activated sculpture, which contains stylized prayer wheels in tribute to the area's Asian population. [6] [7]

On August 15, 2009, the station was temporarily closed due to a chemical spill in an adjacent industrial park. [8]

In 2013, the city of Garland created a tax increment financing district for the area around the station. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Forest/Jupiter Station". Dallas Area Rapid Transit . Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Bicycle Parking". Dallas Area Rapid Transit . Retrieved September 1, 2024.
  3. 1 2 Abshire, Richard; Hartzel, Tony (November 17, 2002). "DART pulling into Garland: Rail line to link 2 stations with downtown Dallas on Monday". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 33A – via NewsBank.
  4. ↑ Nogami, Doug (August 7, 1983). "The DART Decision: Suburban leaders divided over DART plan". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 30A – via NewsBank.
  5. ↑ "Northeast Corridor: Final Local Environmental Assessment (Final LEA)" [report]. DART Historical Archive, pp. 1-25, 1-27. The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas.
  6. ↑ Hartzel, Tony (October 20, 2002). "DART adds art to the science of transit". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 32A – via NewsBank.
  7. ↑ "DART Gallery: A Collection of Public Art" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit . p. 31. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Chemical spill forces DART detour". WFAA . Belo Corporation. August 15, 2009 – via NewsBank.
  9. ↑ "Forest-Jupiter Transit-Oriented Redevelopment Plan" (PDF). North Central Texas Council of Governments . May 7, 2013.


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