Texas\u2019 largest public transit system is set to launch service on a $2.1 billion commuter rail that will connect seven cities across the Dallas area after years of delays.<\/p>\n
Dallas Area Rapid Transit<\/a> is scheduled to start running the Silver Line<\/a> on Saturday, a 26-mile corridor linking Plano, Richardson, Addison, Carrollton, Coppell, Dallas and Grapevine with Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport<\/a>\u2019s Terminal B. The project, first conceived decades ago as the Cotton Belt corridor, marks the agency\u2019s largest capital investment to date and a rare east-west connection that doesn\u2019t run through downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 largest public transit system is set to launch service on a $2.1 billion commuter rail that will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[910,15719,5896,7771,102,104,103,712,15721,15720,15718,1764,27],"class_list":["post-20774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-business","tag-capital-investment","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cities","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-dina-lee","tag-generic-1st-ct-future","tag-generic-1st-si-future","tag-inflation","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}