There’s a train in your future … welcome aboard!

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority (also known as The T) is developing plans for a rail line in the Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor — sw2neRAIL — across Tarrant County. The proposed commuter route follows existing rail lines from Sycamore School Road in southwest Fort Worth, through downtown Fort Worth, northeast to downtown Grapevine and then into the north entrance of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

Planning and developing a rail line takes a lot of planning and activity by a lot of people … including you. Like any complex project, the Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor is best approached as a series of steps. The current step involves compiling environmental information and performing preliminary engineering.



Watch an aerial video tour of the Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor, with commentary provided by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Transportation Writer Gordon Dickson.  The video was produced by the proposed rail project's consultant team led by URS Corporation, and the narrated commentary was added by Mr. Dickson.  Our thanks to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Mr. Dickson for their partnership in bringing you information about the Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor.  More transportation news is available on Mr. Dickson's blog.

It’s About You

In a way, the environmental study is about you: your city, your neighborhood, your commute and your family. As the “footprint” of the proposed route emerges through initial design, the study team will document natural, cultural, historical, archaeological and social environments along the route. While professional scientists and others will be out in the area gathering data, you are the ones who can tell us how the train and its passenger stations and other facilities will affect your environment.

On this site, you’ll find ways to attend meetings, sign up for more information and send us your comments.

It’s About Your Commute

The Southwest-to-Northeast Rail Corridor is an ambitious project. If the project proceeds as planned, this rail line could be operating as early as 2012. The current portion — the environmental study and basic engineering — is scheduled for completion in Spring 2008, with additional engineering work to occur throughout 2008 and into 2009.

So welcome aboard. There’s a train in your future.

To see how we got to this point, take a look at the 2006 Alternatives Analysis Executive Summary, in which The T conducted an analysis of a wide range of transportation options—rail, bus rapid transit and highway alternatives and technologies — to select the commuter rail solution we are studying now.