DART was created on August 13, 1983 as a regional replacement for the DTS (Although the name "Dallas Area Rapid Transit" was intended to reflect the new agency's coverage of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, its acronym DART almost immediately evoked comparisons to San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system, known as BART).
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The On-Call service currently serves north central Plano, eastern Rowlett, Farmers Branch, North Dallas, Lakewood, Richardson, Lake Highlands, and Glenn Heights.
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The project has been broken up into several segments under development by Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority.
It is owned and operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), whose buses mostly serve Plano-area hospitals such as the Presbyterian Hospital and the Medical Center of Plano.
In 2012 a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train station opened on North Lake's central campus, connecting it to downtown Dallas and Dallas Love Field on the Orange Line.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, ordered 2 Brookville Modern Streetcars featuring an on-board energy storage system (ESS) which will allow the units to go more than a mile off-wire.