West End station (DART) explained

West End
Style:Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Address:Pacific Avenue, between Market and Lamar streets
Borough:Dallas, Texas
Coordinates:32.7809°N -96.8057°W
Owned:Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Connections: DART at West Transfer Center
Structure:At-grade
Accessible:Yes
Opened:[1]
Passengers:5,843 (avg. weekday)[2]
Pass Year:FY22
Pass Percent:6.7
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-light
Marker-Color:
  1. 000
Zoom:15

West End station is a DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas. It is located in the West End Historic District of Downtown Dallas on Pacific Avenue, between Market and Lamar Streets near CBD West Transfer Center. It opened on June 14, 1996,[3] and is a station on the,,, and lines, serving the West End Marketplace, Dallas Alley, the Dallas World Aquarium and Zoo, the Sixth Floor Museum (in the Texas School Book Depository), Dealey Plaza, the Old Red Courthouse with its Dallas Visitors Center and El Centro College and is within walking distance of the American Airlines Center and the rest of Victory Park.

This is the westernmost stop on the four-stop trunk segment shared by all four lines. West of here, approaching the TRE tracks, the Orange and Green Lines branch north and the Red and Blue Lines branch south.

Following the shooting of Dallas police officers on July 7, 2016, the station was closed during the investigation of the nearby crime scene.[4] Trains were stopping at all transit mall stations except West End, which they passed through during the incident.[5] News outlets reported that ridership was lower than normal just after the attacks at nearby stations such as Akard, St. Paul, and Pearl/Arts District, typically busy stations during the morning rush hour.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Howell . Curtis . Wrolstad . Mark . June 15, 1996 . Now Boarding: Rail debut has crowds lining up . The Dallas Morning News.
  2. Web site: March 2023 . DART Reference Book . February 12, 2024 . . 31.
  3. News: Curtis. Howell . Mark Wrolstad . The Dallas Morning News . Now Boarding: Rail debut has crowds lining up . June 15, 1996.
  4. News: Formby . Brandon . July 8, 2016 . Large swath of downtown Dallas' west side closed today as other businesses, events shutter and call off plans . The Dallas Morning News . July 8, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160709150055/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20160708-large-swath-of-downtown-dallas-west-side-including-two-major-dart-stations-will-be-closed-friday.ece . 9 July 2016.
  5. Web site: DART Rider Alerts . 27 July 2016.
  6. Web site: Dickson . Gordon . 8 July 2016 . Star Telegram-A somber mood on DART train the morning after attack on Dallas . https://web.archive.org/web/20181224034644/https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article88400737.html . 24 December 2018 . 27 July 2016 . Star Telegram.