Dallas Transportation Tips by grandmaR

'Mode': TO
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: Dallas Fort Worth airport is a very big airport and it is said to be the 3rd busiest in the US. It covers more than 29.8 square miles; real property consists of 18,076 acres (7,318 hectares) which is the 2nd largest airport land mass in the US.. It is a hub for American Airlines. It is in what they call the Metroplex which consists of 126 communities in addition to Dallas and Fort Worth.

The Airport is operated and managed by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board. The Board is comprised of seven members from the City of Dallas, four from the City of Fort Worth, and one non-voting position occupied by - on an annual, rotating basis - each of the Airport’s neighboring cities of Irving, Grapevine, Euless and Coppell.

When I visited in 1997, we flew in on Continental via Detroit or Cleveland, and then flew back via Houston. This time - 2004, we flew on a pass from BWI first class which was definitely MUCH better.

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Phone: 972 574 4420 Visitor assistance
Website: http://www.dfwairport.com/
Other Contact: 972 574 NEWS (news releases)

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: Dallas Area Rapid Transit, or DART, offers over a hundred regularly scheduled bus routes throughout the city. Light rail lines and a downtown subway are currently under construction.

I haven't used any of them, since I either rode with my daughter, or on the convention buses or in my rental car.

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Website: http://www.dart.org

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: I am not sure, but I think this is at the site of the "High Five" project which is the Texas Department of Transportation's (TXDOT) master plan for unsnarling the tangle that has been created over a period of three decades at the interchange between the IH635 east/west loop and US75, the major north/south freeway running through the Dallas metroplex. The project is the largest of its kind in TXDOT history and the largest currently underway in the country.

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Website: http://gilglover.com/Dview4.htm

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: The Dallas Convention Center didn't have enough space, so they built it right over the roads and railroad tracks. The Convention Center has been expanded since I attended a convention there in 1997 but even in those days, you walked from one section to another and could look out on the roads below you.. It now has more than 1 million square feet of exhibit area, including nearly 800,000 square feet of same level, contiguous prime exhibit space. It has heliport/vertiport and light rail access., and it also has a massive truck docking area. There are also two parking garages.

The DART Convention Center Station is served by the downtown segment of the DART Red and Blue Rail lines. It is located on the southwest corner of Lamar Street and Memorial Drive at ground level below the Dallas Convention Center expansion. Facilities include ramps for mobility-impaired passengers and customer information.

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Website: http://www.dart.org

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: As we were leaving the Reunion Tower parking lot, we saw a helicopter landing nearby.

I found that the Heliport is one of the great advantages of the Metraplex. Dallas thinks of itself as a city on the leading edge of intramodal transportation, but if there is one advantage that sets it apart from other large municipalities, it’s the Dallas Heliport/Vertiport. There are two helicopter manufacturers in the area (Bell Textron and Eurocopter).

I do not know if we saw a landing at the Dallas Heliport which is located atop the southwest corner of the Dallas Convention Center - I would not have thought we were that close to the DCC.

You can get Helicopter tours of the area.

The shortest tour is the 30 Minute Red Tour
$225 Garland Heliport, past White Rock Lake, Fair Park (Cotton Bowl), Deep Ellum, Downtown Dallas, Am. Airlines Center, Texas Stadium, Love Field, Park Cities, Back to Heliport

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Phone: 214.349.7000
Website: http://www.skyhelicopters.com/