{"id":44107,"date":"2025-11-11T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:34:10","slug":"plano-commission-oks-vonlane-regional-bus-station-at-legacy-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44107\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano commission OKs Vonlane regional bus station at Legacy West"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlano residents could see a new transit option coming soon to Legacy West.<\/p>\n

At a Nov. 3 meeting<\/a>, Plano Planning and Zoning commissioners approved a specific use permit for a transit station for Vonlane<\/a>, a Texas-based luxury regional bus service meant for interstate travel.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

The station will be located on the northeast corner of Legacy Drive and Communications Parkway at the Renaissance Dallas<\/a> hotel in Legacy West, according to city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vonlane is a regional transportation service that provides bus routes between cities 200-250 miles apart, including connecting the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Austin and Houston.<\/p>\n

A city spokesperson confirmed the transit service is not connected to the upcoming special election<\/a>, which will allow Plano residents to decide whether the city stays a member of Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Plano officials are considering other alternative transit options with the election looming, including Uber and Via.<\/p>\n

Vonlane CEO Alex Danza said the average fare on Vonlane is $130, and each 45-foot Vonlane bus includes 22 seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strategy is to provide people with a transportation option that gives them an alternative to flying or driving themselves between cities that are about 200 miles apart,\u201d Danza said. \u201cFor years, we have connected Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and this year we thought, Plano is booming, [so] we should be in Plano.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zooming in<\/p>\n

Restrictions within the special use permit include:<\/p>\n

No access to Windrose AvenueTransit buses cannot be stored on the hotel property except for temporary loading and unloadingOnly one transit bus is allowed on-site at a timeThe buses will run on a daily schedule, with the highest bus frequency on Monday, Thursday and Friday, according to city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hotel amenities will also be available to bus riders while waiting for their bus to arrive, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead<\/p>\n

The permit is planned to go before Plano City Council for approval at its Nov. 24 meeting.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano residents could see a new transit option coming soon to Legacy West. At a Nov. 3 meeting,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25914,712,704,25913,713,708,716,715,714,160,718,25912,711,705,723,162,161,721,720,722,709,710,719,707,706,717,25910,25911],"class_list":["post-44107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas-love-field-bus-station","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-dart-changes","tag-dfw-bus","tag-downtown-plano","tag-east-plano","tag-independence-construction","tag-park-and-preston","tag-parker-road","tag-plano","tag-plano-budget","tag-plano-bus-system","tag-plano-construction","tag-plano-dart-changes","tag-plano-fire","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-parks","tag-plano-parks-and-recreation","tag-plano-police","tag-plano-road-closures","tag-plano-road-updates","tag-plano-tax-rate","tag-plano-transportation-updates","tag-richardson-dart-changes","tag-us-75-construction","tag-vonlane","tag-vonlane-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107","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=44107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}