Rowlett Realty The Blue Line is Here! DART Opens Rowlett Station

Want to live somewhere near rapid transit, but it can't be a bad area (and you prefer the suburbs)?

DART recently opened the Blue Line from Rowlett to downtown Dallas via Garland. The old Park n Ride station has been greatly expanded and drop-off lanes added next to the tracks.

A connector street has been added to the charming downtown area via Coyle Street. On Main Street a few small boutiques have sprouted between the clock-tower circle and Rowlett Road.

DART already serves Rowlett with bus service to Garland station and with On-Call service around Rowlett, primarily in the east to lower west portion.

Here's a map of the current On-Call service area in Rowlett.

Blue line light rail service runs all the way to Ledbetter Station near the VA hospital on Lancaster Road. The first train from downtown Dallas leaves Cedars Station at 03:27 AM arriving in Rowlett at 04:20 AM, and the last train from downtown arrives 12:54 AM, with trains 3 or 4 times per hour.

The stops and relative times as of 12/3/12 are:

Station Travel Time	NORTHEAST BOUND	NORTHBOUND / EASTBOUND	WESTBOUND / SOUTHBOUND
LEDBETTER		0:00	1:04
VA MEDICAL CENTER		0:03	1:01
KIEST		0:06	0:58
ILLINOIS		0:10	0:55
MORRELL		0:13	0:52
8TH & CORINTH		0:15	0:50
CEDARS	0:00	0:19	0:47
CONVENTION CENTER	0:02	0:21	0:45
UNION STATION	0:05	0:24	0:43
WEST END	0:08	0:27	0:40
AKARD	0:10	0:29	0:38
SAINT PAUL	0:12	0:31	0:36
PEARL / ARTS DISTRICT	0:14	0:33	0:34
CITYPLACE / UPTOWN	0:18	0:37	0:31
MOCKINGBIRD	0:23	0:41	0:27
WHITE ROCK	0:29	0:45	0:22
LAKE HIGHLANDS	0:33	0:48	0:19
LBJ/SKILLMAN	0:37	0:52	0:15
FOREST/JUPITER	0:41	0:55	0:12
DOWNTOWN GARLAND	0:46	0:59	0:08
DOWNTOWN ROWLETT	0:53	1:06	0:00

You can see it takes about an hour to get to the VA Hospital or 45 minutes to go downtown and costs about $5 or less on DART. Information on trips to DFW, Plano and points west or north, e.g.

Trinity Railway Express (TRE) www.TrinityRailwayExpress.org,
Fort Worth's The T www.The-T.com, and
Denton's Connect or A-Train www.DCTA.net,

can be found on the www.DART.org website. The T has the Molly Trolley circulating in downtown Fort Worth. Denton has Campus shuttles to UNT. It's a massively interconnected system.

You can also get to points north, like Plano's Parker Road Station, by transferring to bus at Jupiter Station on the Blue line (0:52 to 0:86 minutes). Fort Worth and D/FW airport are accessible via the downtown Union Station on the TRE or the Orange line plus the 500 bus (1:45 to 2:10).

DART is the largest light rail transit system in the U.S. You can see on this PDF of the Dallas portion of the whole system. Here is a sample of the detail on the map showing rail lines and bus lines near Northwest Highway and Preston Road.

Exact departure and arrival times are:

Rowlett Station	Effective 12/3/2012
Arrival Times	Departure Times
04:20	04:30
04:56	05:06
05:26	05:36
05:39	05:51
05:54	06:06
06:11	06:21
06:28	06:37
06:41	06:51
06:56	07:06
07:12	07:21
07:27	07:36
07:42	07:51
07:57	08:06
08:12	08:19
08:23	08:36
08:29	08:44
08:43	08:56
08:58	09:16
09:13	09:36
09:28	09:44
09:45	09:56
09:58	10:16
10:18	10:36
10:38	10:56
10:58	11:16
11:18	11:36
11:38	11:56
11:58	12:16
12:18	12:36
12:38	12:56
12:58	1:16
1:18	1:36
1:38	1:56
1:58	2:16
2:18	2:36
2:38	2:56
2:58	3:16
3:20	3:36
3:41	3:51
3:51	4:06
4:02	4:21
4:27	4:36
4:42	4:51
4:57	5:06
5:12	5:21
5:27	5:36
5:42	5:56
5:57	6:16
6:12	6:36
6:27	6:56
6:39	7:16
6:58	7:36
7:18	7:56
7:38	8:16
7:58	8:36
8:18	8:56
8:38	9:16
8:58	9:36
9:18	10:06
9:38	10:16
9:58	10:36
10:18	10:48
10:38	11:06
10:56	11:36
11:26	0:06
11:56	0:37
0:26	01:04
0:54

See the DART.org website for up to date schedules.

Fares:

Ticket Type	Ticket Coverage	2-Hour Pass	Midday Pass 9:30 am-2:30 pm	Day Pass	Week Pass	Month Pass
Local	Rail+Bus+DFW	2.50	1.75	5.00	25.00	80.00
System	Rail+Bus+DFW+TRE & bus282, COMPASS	3.50	N/A	7.00	N/A	100.00
Regional	Rail+Bus+DFW+TRE & The-T+DCTA	5.00	3.50	10.00	50.00	160.00
Reduced Regional – Students limited to Local	65+, disabled, Medicare, student, children 5-14	1.25	N/A	2.50	N/A	40.00
Accompanied 0-4 years	2 maximum	0.00	FREE	0.00	FREE	0.00
Northpark shuttle	Route 702	1.25	N/A	2.50		40.00