SMU/Mockingbird station
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SMU/Mockingbird station (originally Mockingbird station) is a DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas. It is located at Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway (US 75) in North Dallas. It opened in January 1997 and is a station on the Blue, Red, and Orange Lines, serving the Mockingbird Station mixed-use development and nearby Southern Methodist University (SMU).
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DART Light Rail station | ||||||||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 5465 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75206 | |||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 32.837874°N 96.774922°W / 32.837874; -96.774922 | |||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | |||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | island platform | |||||||||||||||||||
Connections | DART Routes 3, 17, 105, 209, 249, 440-Mustang Express (M-Sat), 441-Museum Express (M-Sun) Lakewood GoLink Zone (M-F) Park Cities GoLink Zone (M-Sun) Katy Trail | |||||||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Trenched | |||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 708 free spaces, no overnight | |||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 6 lockers, 9 racks | |||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | January 10, 1997[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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SMU/Mockingbird has the highest density population within three miles of any mass transit station in Texas.[citation needed] It is also the northernmost DART station serving both the Red and Blue lines; from this point the lines diverge with the Red line heading north and the Blue line heading northeast. From January 10, 1997, to September 27, 1999, SMU/Mockingbird station served only the Red Line.
DART renamed the station to SMU/Mockingbird Station on August 12, 2019,[2] after SMU paid DART $463,000 for a 10-year naming rights agreement.[3]