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Glenn Heights Park & Ride is a small park and ride lot in Glenn Heights, Texas. Located west of I-35E, it is the southernmost transit facility in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system.

The lot is primarily served by the Glenn Heights Express bus, which provides weekday peak-only service to Downtown Dallas, Dallas Market Center, and the Southwestern Medical District.

The station is also a transfer point for two microtransit services. Glenn Heights GoLink, operated by DART, services the city of Glenn Heights and UNT Dallas station, while STARNow, operated by STAR Transit, services the nearby cities of Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Duncanville.

The lot contains 595 parking spaces and 4 open-air passenger shelters. The lot does not have an air-conditioned shelter or a station attendant.

History

The station opened on September 16, 1991 as a replacement for a temporary park and ride closer to I-35E.

In 2011, in an effort to improve parking availability, DART announced that Glenn Heights Park & Ride would be added to an upcoming paid-parking program. The program, later dubbed "Fair Share Parking", would charge a daily parking fee to riders that did not live in a DART member city; it was also set to be used at Parker Road and North Carrollton/Frankford. However, when the program was rolled out on April 2, 2012, it was only implemented at the rail stations, not at Glenn Heights. Fair Share Parking ended two years later, and while it was expanded to two more stations in the interim, Glenn Heights was not one of them.

In 2023, DART installed two EV charging stations in the lot.

References

1. ^ "METRO REPORT". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. 1991-11-14. pp. 34A. Retrieved 2023-11-19 – via NewsBank.
2. "306 Route Map" (PDF). Dallas Area Rapid Transit. 2023-01-23. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-07-16. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
3. "Glenn Heights". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2023-12-19. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
4. "Connections to DART". STAR Transit. Archived from the original on 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
5. "Glenn Heights Park & Ride". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2023-07-16.
6. ^ Lindenberger, Michael A. (2011-04-13). "DART OKs parking fee at Glenn Heights". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B1 – via NewsBank.
7. ^ "Fair Share Parking". Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
8. Lindenberger, Michael A. (2012-04-13). "Many avoiding DART pay lots". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation. pp. B3 – via NewsBank.
9. "DART installs EV charging stations at Glenn Heights Park & Ride and Illinois Stations". Mass Transit. Endeavor Business Media. 2023-09-01. Archived from the original on 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2023-11-19.

v t e Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
Services	Light rail      Red Line      Blue Line      Green Line      Orange Line Dallas Streetcar Proposed D2 Subway Commuter rail      Trinity Railway Express Under construction      Silver Line
Transit centers	Addison Bernal/Singleton CBD East CBD West Cockrell Hill Glenn Heights J. B. Jackson Jr. Jack Hatchell Lake Ray Hubbard Malcolm X Boulevard North Irving Northwest Plano Red Bird South Garland
Connecting bus services	Greyhound Lines (Fort Worth Central Station) Trinity Metro (Fort Worth Central Station and T&P Station)
Connecting rail services	Amtrak (at Union Station) A-train (at Trinity Mills) MATA M-Line Trolley (at Cityplace/​Uptown) TEXRail (at DFW Airport Terminal A)

32°33′35″N 96°49′39″W / 32.5597°N 96.8275°W / 32.5597; -96.8275

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