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In an earlier post I expressed some doubt as to the extent people arriving in Dallas by high speed rail, or any other commercial mode for the matter, would use public transport to get to their final Dallas area destination.  I suggested further that the results from the Orange Line, which goes to DFW International Airport, could provide an indication of how many passengers might connect to or from local transit. Here are a few thoughts regarding the Orange Line from Roger Jones's Transportation Blog, which is a regular feature in the Dallas Morning News. This blog data was posted on November 7th. According to DART, a little over 1,000 people per day are using the Orange Line to get to and from DFW International Airport.  Whether it is 1,000 people or 1,000 riders is not clear.  Since DART counts passengers when they get on a train or bus, I suspect the count is 500 people per day.   DART's spokesperson also said that they - DART - see a lot of people on the train with luggage, but he did not provide a count or explain what he meant by a lot of people. According to DART Chief Gary Thomas, DART expects most of the people who use the Orange Line will be airport workers.  DFW International has more than 60,000 on site workers, making it one of the largest concentrations of employees in the Metroplex. The early figures suggest that the Orange Line is attracting a substantial number of riders to and from the airport.  But the number of airline passengers appears to be small.  This does not bode well for the argument that people arriving in Dallas or Houston on a high speed train will opt for public transport to reach their final destination.
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