At Last!

One shock that foreign visitors have when coming to the U.S. is our lack of (in some places) public transportation. Let's say you fly into the International Airport (DFW) serving both Dallas and Ft. Worth, which is approximately midway between the two cities., and you wanted to go to downtown Ft. Worth roughly twenty two miles away. The choices were few.

WELL that all changed January of this year

when the Texrail train made it maiden voyage from terminal B at the DFW airport to downtown Ft. Worth and points in between!.

Tom and I decided on Saturday that we would give it trial run. You can depart from several stations in Ft. Worth.

We caught the train at the TP staion at the bottom left of the chart,

 buying our ticket from this ticket machine. We are not use to ticket machines so it took us more time than most folks, but we finally figured it out. The trains depart the TP station hourly twenty five minutes after the hour.

Since the service is very new and also because it was Saturday...there were very few passengers on the pretty comfortable very clean  train cars. There were electrical outlets at each seat for charging your devices

and even a few seats with tables where you could work. On each train there is a car marked "quiet car" so if you are really trying to work (or sleep) that you will not be bothered by noisy passengers.
Gosh that landscape out the window looks a bit like we are on the moon!

There were several stops along the way. I didn't time them but none of them seemed more than about three mins.

and yes we felt safe.

The train ride is about twenty mins. longer than driving, but gosh it is 100% less stressful and we do plan to us it next time we catch a flight! Round trip cost  $5.00 pp