The final recommendations to The T's 2015 master plan include adding service to much of Tarrant County, including Arlington.
The report highlights how The T could improve transit in the county, including a long-term 20-year plan that would deliver a "robust network of transit services" to Tarrant County.
Included in that network are four new train stops along the Trinity Rail Line, one in North Arlington where the elevated TRE tracks cross Collins Street adjacent to the city's landfill and north of the Viridian master-planned community. (See the map below).
The plan calls for a Transit Center near Arlington's city center where Bus Rapid Transit service will come from Fort Worth on Division Street and then on to AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Park. Bus Rapid Transit service would also go south to Mansfield and north to the proposed TRE stop and existing Centreport Station.
Rapid Bus service will leave the Transit Center to offer service near UTA, east Arlington, South Arlington (Tarrant County College's Southeast campus) and into Mansfield.
Express Route service would extend from Fort Worth along Interstate 30 to Collins and to the Transit Center and along U.S. 287 and Interstate 20 to a Park and Ride facility at the Tarrant/Dallas county line.
The trick, of course, is finding out how to pay for the services. Historically, Arlington voters have rejected sales tax increases for public transportation.