The details
The commuter rail line started service in 2019—a year before the COVID-19 pandemic. After a dip in trips, TEXRail’s recovery has now surpassed a 30% increase over prepandemic customer trips, according to a news release. Trinity Metro has reached 89% ridership recovery for both buses and trains.
Zooming in
The rail line is a 27-mile stretch that runs between downtown Fort Worth and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal B. The trains are hitting the 98% on-time performance goal, according to a news release.
What they’re saying
“Considering the ridership increases over all Trinity Metro services, as an agency, we are almost back to where we were before COVID[-19] hit” said Jon-Erik “AJ” Arjanen, vice president and chief operating officer for rail. “TEXRail’s success is attributed to the entire Trinity Metro family and is only one of the many reasons that our agency as a whole is on track to reach 100% recovery by the end of the year.”
