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Lovers Lane station is a DART light rail station in Dallas, Texas. It serves the Red Line and Orange Line. The station is located in East Dallas; it is directly east of North Central Expressway (US 75) and one block south of the intersection of Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue.
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| Location | 5603 Milton Street[1] Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°50′55″N 96°46′18″W / 32.84861°N 96.77167°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Two side platforms | ||||||||||||||
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| Bicycle facilities | 1 bike rack | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | January 10, 1997[2] | ||||||||||||||
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The station services several strip malls along Greenville Avenue, the Energy Square and Meadows Building office complexes, and the residential complex The Village.[1]
Unlike most DART stations, Lovers Lane station does not have a park-and-ride lot. As of June 2024[update], the station also does not receive bus service, though two bus routes can be accessed from Greenville Avenue one block east of the station entrance.[3]
History
editInitial plans for the Lovers Lane station suggested either an at-grade or aerial station, both of which would have an 800-space parking lot and would be located south of an elevated crossing at Lovers Lane.[4] Due to costs, DART chose to remove the parking lot from the plans, which nearly led to the station being rejected by the Dallas City Plan Commission.[5]
As part of DART's Station Art & Design Program, DART installed tile mosaics depicting bois d'arc trees and ten windscreens featuring poems by local poet Robert Trammell.[6][7][8] The station opened on January 10, 1997 alongside Mockingbird and Park Lane stations.[2]
At opening, the station was the eastern terminus of a shuttle to Dallas Love Field. The route was eliminated in 2003 in favor of a connection to Downtown Dallas.[9]
In 2008, the city of Dallas established a four-segment tax increment financing district around several DART rail stations. One of the sub-districts consists of land along Greenville Avenue between Lovers Lane and SMU/Mockingbird stations.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b "Lovers Lane Station". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ a b Howell, Curtis (February 2, 1997). "DART's light rail making tracks: First-week ridership exceeds expectations by 33 percent". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 37A – via NewsBank.
- ^ "Station Facilities Map: Lovers Lane Station" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ "North Central Corridor: Local Environmental Assessment" [report]. DART Historical Archive, pp. 19, 22-23. The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ Jacobson, Sherry (November 20, 1992). "Panel refuses to approve DART rail station at Lovers Lane". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 34A – via NewsBank.
- ^ Robinson, Gaile (April 17, 2003). "Public Works - Public art projects are enjoying a boom throughout North Texas, and Fort Worth might be next on the bandwagon". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Knight Ridder. p. 1 – via NewsBank.
- ^ Weeks, Jerome (May 9, 2006). "Robert Trammell: 1939-2006 - 'The grass-roots poet in Dallas'". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 1G – via NewsBank.
- ^ "DART Gallery: A Collection of Public Art" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. p. 25.
- ^ Hartzel, Tony (October 5, 2003). "DART making more than token cuts". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. 2B – via NewsBank.
- ^ "TOD TIF District". Office of Economic Development. City of Dallas. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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