Part of the proposal for January is to restore light rail service, to pre-pandemic frequencies, basically getting the schedules back to where they were before everything slowed down, and before we reduced levels of service. So we're proposing to create a much larger group of what we call frequent routes that run every 15 or 20 minutes most of the time, and then improve our other routes to run every 30 or every 40 minutes, depending on the time of day with relatively few routes running every 60 minutes. We have many routes that run every hour during off peak periods, outside the rush hour.

Traditionally, DART's service has been relatively infrequent. That's one of the core things that helps determine whether someone is going to choose to use transit or not. Probably the biggest change in terms of what we're proposing is changes to service frequency. We're talking about every route, basically we started with a clean sheet of paper and looked at the entire system and are proposing a complete transition to a new and very different bus network. On What's Being Changed With The Bus System: Interview highlights were lightly edited for clarity. KERA's Justin Martin spoke with Rob Smith, the vice president of service planning and development for DART, about the agency's plans. The goal is to build a system that can meet the needs of a rapidly growing metroplex. Dallas Area Rapid Transit is undertaking an ambitious redesign of its entire bus network.

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