North Carrollton/Frankford station

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North Carrollton/Frankford
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DART Green Line light rail cars awaiting departure.
General information
Location1717 West Frankford Road
Carrollton, Texas 75007
Coordinates 32°59′34″N96°56′17″W / 32.992744°N 96.937997°W / 32.992744; -96.937997
Owned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Northwest Carrollton GoLink Zone (M-Sun)
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Parking1,677 spaces [1]
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedDecember 6, 2010 [2]
Services
Preceding station Dallas Area Rapid Transit logo.svg Dallas Area Rapid Transit Following station
Terminus Green Line Trinity Mills
toward Buckner

North Carrollton/Frankford station (sometimes shortened to North Carrollton station) is a DART Light Rail station in Carrollton, Texas that serves as the northern terminus of the Green Line. [1] The station is the only DART facility to be located in Denton County and primarily serves as a park-and-ride.

Contents

The station is adjacent to the right-of-way for the A-train commuter rail line, but the A-train does not stop at North Carrollton/Frankford. Instead, it meets with the Green Line at Trinity Mills, one station to the south. [3]

History

The station was first proposed in 2000 in a study of the "Northwest Corridor", which included the modern-day Green Line and Orange Line. In these proposals, the station was simply named "Frankford" after Frankford Road. [4]

In 2002, the city of Carrollton passed a resolution proposing names for the three stations in the city. This proposal renamed the Frankford Road station to "North Carrollton" with the specific aim of ensuring that the name "Carrollton" would appear on the line's destination signs. [5]

In 2004, following the proposal of the A-train, the city of Carrollton debated removing North Carrollton/Frankford from the line. The station was primarily intended as a park-and-ride lot for Denton County residents commuting to Downtown Dallas, but the A-train (which did not stop at the station) would serve the same purpose. [6]

The station was opened on December 6, 2010 with the rest of the northern Green Line. [2]

On April 2, 2012, DART began a pilot program known as "Fair Share Parking", which required commuters from non-DART member cities to pay a $2 fee for parking. North Carrollton/Frankford was one of two stations to be included in the program at launch, the other being Parker Road. [7] The proposal was intended to improve parking availability and to make up for the lack of sales tax revenue from non-residents. [8] However, most commuters simply switched to parking at other stations; in North Carrollton/Frankford's case, most commuters moved to Trinity Mills. [9] After the pilot program failed to make a profit, DART opted to end it. North Carrollton/Frankford reverted to free parking on April 2, 2014. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "North Carrollton/Frankford Station". Dallas Area Rapid Transit . Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  2. 1 2 Floyd, Jacquielynn (2010-12-07). "On DART's Green Line, the advantage is clear". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B1 – via NewsBank.
  3. ↑ "System Map" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit . 2023-01-23.
  4. ↑ "Final Report Major Investment Study for the DART Northwest Corridor" [report]. DART Historical Archive. The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  5. ↑ Stafford, Scott (2002-03-29). "'We should have Carrollton on the front of that train' City is first to tell agency what it wants light-rail stops called". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 35A – via NewsBank.
  6. ↑ "Regional Roundup". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. 2004-10-16. pp. 2B – via NewsBank.
  7. ↑ Lindenberger, Michael A. (2012-04-03). "Parking charges debut". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B7 – via NewsBank.
  8. ↑ Lindenberger, Michael A. (2011-09-28). "Paid parking could start at two DART lots by December". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B3 – via NewsBank.
  9. ↑ Wilonsky, Robert (2013-03-25). "One year in DART's paid-parking experiment in Plano, Carrollton is not faring nearly as well as expected". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation – via NewsBank.
  10. ↑ Formby, Brandon (2014-03-31). "DART ends paid parking, creates reserved lot in Plano". The Dallas Morning News . A. H. Belo Corporation – via NewsBank.


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