Fort Worth’s new Blue Line downtown route to start moving people. Here’s when
June 5,2025
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Bright blue buses will soon transport people around downtown Fort Worth.
The free Trinity Metro service — funded by Visit Fort Worth and Downtown Fort Worth Inc. — was introduced June 4 as the replacement for the Molly the Trolley route.
The Blue Line route will debut in downtown Fort Worth at 7 a.m. June 8, the day after Molly the Trolley ends its service. The new route will operate daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., traversing the city core every 7 minutes to transport locals as well as Fort Worth’s 11.5 million visitors each year.
During a ceremony at Sundance Square Plaza, pianists Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe provided a musical introduction to the downtown route with their crowd-pleasing rendition of “America” from “West Side Story,” a nod to the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition currently underway in Fort Worth.
The new route “is a reminder of where Fort Worth is headed in the future,” Mayor Mattie Parker told the crowd.
Council member Elizabeth Beck, who noted that blue is her favorite color, said the route will show “how important transit is to our economy.”
Tourism in Fort Worth provides a $3.5 billion economic impact to the city with an estimated $251 million in state and local taxes generated by visitor spending.
Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., said the Blue Line will be “a remarkable amenity” for tourism as the route is accessible to 1,000 hotel rooms downtown.
“The Blue Line connects all of those people,” he said.
Visitors will be able to easily access the route, which stops at attractions such as Sundance Square, the Fort Worth Convention Center and the Fort Worth Water Gardens.
“Offering rides every 7 minutes is very convenient and a great incentive for riders to hop on board,” said Bob Jameson, president and CEO of Visit Fort Worth. “The complimentary bus route supports a growing convention business in our downtown and is one more example of the welcome extended to our visitors.”
Trinity Metro, he said, “has stepped up to the plate.”
The Fort Worth transit agency will use 6-year-old electric buses for the route, which will operate with greater frequency than the previous schedule of every 15 minutes. Buses feature iconic images, including an angel from the facade of Bass Performance Hall.
Officials previously said the operational cost of the service change will cause an increase of $386,000 annually.
The electric buses, initially purchased for the Dash route, have six years of operation left before they will need to be replaced.
Riders on the new route would have to wait about 4.5 minutes to board a Western-themed Orange Line bus to the Fort Worth Stockyards that launched in 2024 as part of a plan to introduce color-coded routes.
“We have more color-coded routes planned, and our Blue Line is the next step,” said Trinity Metro President and CEO Richard Andreski, who wore a tuxedo to the event.
Ben Robertson, a Trinity Metro board member, said the debut of the new route was “awesome.”
“It will be a dedicated and visible transit option for visitors and locals,” he said.
Update: This story has been updated to reflect the Fort Worth tourism economic impact.
Eric E. Garcia is a senior business reporter at the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at eric.garcia@fortworthreport.org.
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