No Red River Rivalry DART Snafus At This Year's State Fair Of Texas

Last year thousands of football fans tried to use DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) to get to the Red River Rivalry football game between Texas and Oklahoma during the State Fair of Texas.

Last year DART was not prepared to handle the numbers who tried to use their system to get to Fair Park and the Cotton Bowl. There was a lot of complaining and vows to never ride DART again.

This year DART let it be known that there would not be a repeat of last year's debacle, due to DART adding buses, plus a special State Fair Express Train running every 10 minutes and adding dozens of workers to help move the crowds on to the trains.

This year there was no DART snafu. But, this lack of snafuing was not due to all that DART had done to fix the problems. Instead, the lack of a traffic snafu was due to thousands of football fans staying true to their vow to not ride DART again.

Last Saturday's game day drew huge crowds to the State Fair of Texas with a record breaking $3.6 million being spent on coupons. You can not use U.S. Currency to buy food or rides at the State Fair of Texas. You have to convert your U.S. Currency in to coupons to buy fried food and midway rides.

You do not have to convert your U.S. Currency in to coupons to ride on a DART train. U.S. Currency is accepted.

It is a shame the Red Rivalry football fans did not give DART another try. DART has a very good website called "Ride DART to the State Fair of Texas" which has all the info you could possibly need to take the Trinity River Express (TRE) and DART to the State Fair of Texas.