 | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Forest/Jupiter station" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Forest/Jupiter | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DART light rail station | |||||||||||
 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 3232 Forest Lane Garland, Texas | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°54′29″N 96°40′46″W / 32.90806°N 96.67944°W / 32.90806; -96.67944 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Connections |  DART: 22, 245, and 247 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 563 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 4 lockers, 1 rack | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | November 18, 2002 (2002-11-18) | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
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.
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.
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. A more detailed plan of the corridor in 1997 proposed that the station and the crossings over Forest and Jupiter be elevated; 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. 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.
On August 15, 2009, the station was temporarily closed due to a chemical spill in an adjacent industrial park.
In 2013, the city of Garland created a tax increment financing district for the area around the station.
References
- ^ "Forest/Jupiter Station". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
- "Bicycle Parking". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- "Northeast Corridor: Final Local Environmental Assessment (Final LEA)" . DART Historical Archive, pp. 1-25, 1-27. The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas.
- 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.
- "DART Gallery: A Collection of Public Art" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. p. 31. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
- "Chemical spill forces DART detour". WFAA. Belo Corporation. August 15, 2009 – via NewsBank.
- "Forest-Jupiter Transit-Oriented Redevelopment Plan" (PDF). North Central Texas Council of Governments. May 7, 2013.
External links
 | This tram-, streetcar-, or light rail-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
  | This Texas train station-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |