After months of anxious waiting, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) board of directors has elected to adopt proposed service changes, which include reduced frequency, increased fares, and eliminated routes. This amounts to the largest service change package in the transit service’s 40-year history.
Seven routes, 209, 225, 254, 255, 305, 378, and 383, will be eliminated. The fixed bus route frequency will be reduced from every 15 minutes to every 20 minutes. In August, the board approved increasing curb-to-curb paratransit fees by 50 cents to $4 per one-way ride and increasing the cost of a single-ride standard ticket from $3 to $4.
The final vote on remaining changes to route frequencies and bus routes, originally scheduled for late August, was delayed two weeks to allow member cities to provide feedback on the plan…