{"id":439115,"date":"2026-09-17T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439115\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:22:10","slug":"dart-adds-direct-state-fair-of-texas-buses-on-weekends-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439115\/","title":{"rendered":"DART adds direct State Fair of Texas buses on weekends. What to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DART is offering visitors a new way to get to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/state-fair\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> State Fair of Texas<\/a> this year, including direct buses from four North Texas locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The State Fair Flyer buses will run on Saturdays and Sundays from Addison Station, Downtown Rowlett Station, Glenn Heights Park &amp; Ride and Lake Ray Hubbard Transit Center. Buses, which fit approximately 40 passengers, will take visitors directly to Lot 8 near the Midway Gate, departing the transit centers hourly starting at 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The State Fair Flyer will depart Lot 8 beginning at 12 p.m., with the last shuttle leaving at 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shuttle service will be available on Oct. 12, Indigenous People\u2019s Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The transit agency will also provide special weekend light rail service for the duration of the fair, which runs from Sept. 25 through Oct. 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives our customers another convenient option for reaching the fairgrounds without having to worry about driving, parking and navigating traffic around Fair Park,\u201d said Trenise Winters, DART\u2019s chief operations officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DART will provide shuttles for visitors attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/?utm_source=paid_marketing&amp;utm_medium=google_dsa&amp;utm_campaign=content_acquisition&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23423742462&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwn67VBhBnEiwAXUIN1dKhElWxesgr3XPrbJB_VQiUhvxFRGj4g0O270_ZQHsRSP-AYpq4ixoCfBQQAvD_BwE\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red River Rivalry<\/a> between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University at the Cotton Bowl Stadium on Oct. 10. Additional State Fair Flyers will be provided at City Line Bush Station and SMU\/Mockingbird Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cost of riding the shuttle to and from the fair is $6, and passes are available for purchase at any of the transit centers or on the GoPass app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All light rail lines will run on 20-minute frequency on game day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Green Line will have an additional train car to support up to 800 extra passengers on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>DART will run modified Orange Line service on weekends and Indigenous People\u2019s Day, with trains running between DFW International Airport and Buckner Station. Once Orange Line trains reach Pearl Station, the route will shift to the Green Line, taking visitors directly to Fair Park Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want our customers to focus on enjoying the fair, while we focus on transporting them to the fair and back home,\u201d Winters said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DART is offering visitors a new way to get to the State Fair of Texas this year, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100447,17921,424,27,29,28,144221,88572,90556,95188],"class_list":["post-439115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-news-transportation","tag-service","tag-state-fair","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-college-football","tag-tp-transportation","tag-tp-dart","tag-tp-fair-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439115","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=439115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}