Resources and Information

Free DART Pass for UT Dallas Students

If you are UT Dallas student and have a valid Comet Card, are registered and have paid the fees for the current semester, you can get a semester-long pass to use all of DART's public transportation for free.

The GoPass app is also the best way to navigate and plan trips with the DART system, with more accurate arrival times than other apps such as Google or Apple Maps. Physical passes can also be acquired by contacting park@utdallas.edu.

Transit Near Campus

Quick links: Silver Line, Comet Cruiser, Dart Busses, UTD-UTSW Shuttle.

Silver Line

The long-awaited Silver Line is now open! It runs from Grapevine to Plano, notably with a stop right at UTD, by the Northside Apartments. It provides easy access from campus to the DFW airport. It also allows for faster access to downtown Dallas via the Red Line transferring at CityLine/Bush.

Comet Cruiser

The Comet Cruiser is shuttle bus run by a partnership of UTD and DART that follows a short local route, without the need of any ticket to board. Comet Cruisers often look like regular DART busses except with different exterior branding, or sometimes they are black private charter busses. See Comet Cruiser map:

They run from 10am to 6pm on Sundays and 7am to 11pm on all other days, with 15 minute frequency on weekdays and 30 minutes on weekends. The 883 East route runs starts from the UTD bus stop (near the traffic circle by JSOM), with stops along Synergy Park Blvd and Waterview Pkwy, closer to the dorms and apartments if you live on campus.

DART busses

While using the 883 East, you'll see (and use, if you have a DART pass) the regular DART bus 232 which runs a similar route near campus along Synergy, ending at CityLine, but starts from much further west. Another DART bus that passes campus, except along Campbell Road, is DART 244 (which has replaced the old DART 240) that goes from the top of campus, linking the Silver Line UTD station (once it is completed) down to Arapaho Center Station on the Red Line. See DART 244 map:

UTD-UTSW Shuttle

The UTD Office of the Provost continues to sponsor a free shuttle service from UTD to the Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building (TI-NMES) on the East Campus of the UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). The pickup and drop-off location at UT Dallas is the bus stop on the west side of Rutford Avenue near Capella Hall. For the Spring 2025 semester, the schedule, shown below, has been revised and the shuttle has been upgraded to a 25-seat minibus.

Our Discord

For more information, to participate in our activism, and to join a welcoming community of others who use transit in the area, join the Comets for Better Transit Discord server.

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