Dallas to Get Money to Extend Bishop Arts Streetcar to Downtown Omni Hotel

Dallas will soon have the money to send its streetcar to the front doors of the downtown Omni Hotel.The City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday to accept $8 million in state funds -- from a mix of sources -- to complete a long-planned streetcar extension. The money is left over from the McKinney Avenue trolley extension and the Dallas streetcar's construction.Currently, the Oak Cliff streetcar runs from the Bishop Arts District to Union Station. City officials hope to break ground on the latest streetcar extension within about a year and hope to cut the ribbon sometime in the summer of 2019.Council member Lee Kleinman, who chairs the mobility committee, said he's "excited to see the streetcar developed."  Continue reading...