| Forest/Jupiter | |||||||||
| Style: | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||
| Type: | DART light rail station | ||||||||
| Address: | 3232 Forest Lane | ||||||||
| Borough: | Garland, Texas | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 32.9081°N -96.6794°W | ||||||||
| Connections: | DART:,, and | ||||||||
| Structure: | At-grade | ||||||||
| Platform: | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Parking: | 563 spaces | ||||||||
| Bicycle: | 4 lockers,[1] 1 rack | ||||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||||
| Owned: | Dallas Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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Forest/Jupiter station is a DART light rail station in Garland, Texas. The station is located in western Garland at the intersection of Forest Lane and Jupiter Road. It is served by the .[2]
The station serves a large industrial corridor (including facilities for Sherwin-Williams and Kraft Heinz) and the Garland Independent School District administration building. A neighborhood NaNmiles north of the station contains the Walnut Creek Branch of Garland's Nicholson Memorial Library System.
Plans for a station at the Forest/Jupiter intersection date back to DART's first rail plan in 1983. The station would be built on an existing freight corridor constructed by the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad.[3] A more detailed plan of the corridor in 1997 proposed that the station and the crossings over Forest and Jupiter be elevated;[4] ultimately, the station was constructed at-grade, but the crossings remained elevated.
The Blue Line was extended to both Forest/Jupiter and Downtown Garland on November 18, 2002.[5] The station was decorated with stylized plows and gearworks, as well as a 25feet wind-activated sculpture, which contains stylized prayer wheels in tribute to the area's Asian population.[6] [7]
On August 15, 2009, the station was temporarily closed due to a chemical spill in an adjacent industrial park.[8]
In 2013, the city of Garland created a tax increment financing district for the area around the station.[9]