| Forest Lane | |||||||||||
| Style: | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||
| Type: | DART light rail station | ||||||||||
| Address: | 8210 Forest Lane[1] | ||||||||||
| Borough: | Dallas, Texas | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 32.9086°N -96.7617°W | ||||||||||
| Connections: | DART:,, and North Central Dallas GoLink Zone (M-Sun),, | ||||||||||
| Platform: | Island (elevated) | ||||||||||
| Parking: | 253 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle: | 4 bike lockers,[2] 1 bike rack | ||||||||||
| Opened: | [3] | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||||
| Owned: | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Forest Lane station is a DART Light Rail station in northeastern Dallas, Texas. The elevated station, which serves the and, is located on Forest Lane, NaNmiles east of North Central Expressway (US 75) and 1miles south of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635).
The station serves the Medical City Dallas hospital complex, the Cottonwood Trail, and the Hamilton Park neighborhood. In tribute to the largely African-American population of Hamilton Park, the station features a sculpture dedicated to African-Americans who fought against housing segregation.[4]
Northeastern Dallas was originally serviced by the North Central Transit Center, a park-and-ride bus station located between North Central Expressway and Coit Road. The transit center was announced by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1983, several months before DART's formation; it was opened in 1985.[5]
The lot consisted of an air-conditioned waiting area and 1,300 parking spaces. In addition to servicing DART, the center was intended to service Surtran, a municipal bus service connecting Dallas to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, but Surtran was discontinued in 1985.[6]
The lot was closed after Forest Lane opened in 2002,[7] with all its bus routes moving to Forest Lane station. The lot was left unused for several years before it was redeveloped; it is currently the location of a Costco store.
Forest Lane station opened on July 1, 2002, as part of the Red Line's second major expansion. The Saturday before, an opening ceremony, dubbed "Super Saturday", was held at both the Forest Lane and Arapaho Center stations.[8]
In May 2011, the Cottonwood Trail was extended south from North Central Expressway to the White Rock Creek Trail. The extension included a trailhead at Forest Lane, which was the first trailhead to be located at any DART station.[9]