Expect a transit-related emergency drill in downtown Fort Worth next month.
In preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup coming to North Texas this summer, the emergency drill will take place April 15 at the Fort Worth Central Station, 1001 Jones St.
The joint drill involving the city of Fort Worth, Trinity Metro, Trinity Railway Express, TEXRail, Amtrak and other entities will be at the busy bus and train station.
“There’s going to be about 20 to 30 emergency vehicles down there,” Brad Beason, manager of rail operations, told the Trinity Metro board of directors during their March 16 meeting.
“There’s a bunch of actors and everybody coming in.”
The drill will focus on a fictional improvised explosive device involving transportation “just to be ready for that scenario if it ever comes up,” Beason said.
The drill will satisfy a required federal two-year emergency preparation requirement, Beason said.
Safety is a No. 1 priority for the Fort Worth transit agency as it has gone eight years without worker injuries, agency data shows.
About $625 million in security funding for host cities was approved by Congress last year. That money is expected to flow through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but many cities have not yet received formal confirmation of those grants amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.
World Cup upgrades are planned for the TRE train, co-owned by Trinity Metro and Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
A DART grant will enable officials to lease equipment, including three locomotives and additional rail cars, and add more staff to accommodate the thousands of sports fans expected to arrive in North Texas, chief operating officer Reed Lanham previously told Trinity Metro officials.
Each World Cup game will be a “Superbowl-like event” involving the mass movement of people, he said. Arlington is hosting nine matches over the summer, the most of any city during this year’s World Cup.
Fort Worth Central Station and Dallas Victory Station, 2525 Victory Ave., will be hubs for transporting people to games. TRE trains from Fort Worth will operate on a 30-minute schedule on game days and take sports fans to the CentrePort Station south of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. From there, charter buses and Via rideshare vans will take soccer fans to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, dubbed Dallas Stadium for the event.
The April 15 drill is unrelated to a separate April 2 drill that will test local warning systems, according to Texas Division of Emergency Management officials.
Eric E. Garcia is senior business reporter at the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at eric.garcia@fortworthreport.org.
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