Trinity Railway Express to be upgraded for World Cup transportation
August 20,2025
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Transportation officials will add more train equipment and personnel as plans are refined for 2026 FIFA World Cup games in North Texas.
The Trinity Railway Express passenger line between downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas will be the centerpiece of the World Cup mobility plan, Reed Lanham, chief operating officer for Trinity Metro, told the agency’s board on April 18.
“There’s still a lot of planning going on,” Lanham said during an update on the transportation efforts for the event.
A grant from Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which co-owns the TRE train with Trinity Metro, will enable officials to lease equipment, including three locomotives and additional rail cars, and add more staff to accommodate the thousands of sports fans expected to arrive in North Texas.
Each game, Lanham said, will be a “Superbowl-like event,” involving the mass movement of people.
Fort Worth’s Central Station, 1001 Jones St., and Dallas’ Victory Station, 2525 Victory Ave., will be hubs for transporting people to games. TRE trains will operate on a 30-minute schedule on game days and take sports fans to the CentrePort Station south of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. From there, charter buses and Via rideshare vans will be used to take people to Arlington, the largest city in North Texas without a mass transit system.
Despite “a huge hole in our transit,” Trinity Metro CEO Rich Andreski said, North Texas leaders will be ready “to show the world what we’re all about.”
World Cup games also provide an opportunity to show what Trinity Metro can do, he added.
Michael Morris, director of transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, has said that a bus bridge — a bus service that serves as a shuttle from CentrePort Station to Arlington — will be a large factor in being able to host games.
Nine games will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, which will also serve as host of the International Broadcast Center. About 2,000 global broadcast media members will cover the North Texas games and events. Some practices are planned at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
The influx of people coming to North Texas will keep transportation officials on their toes.
“We want to keep people moving,” Lanham said.
Eric E. Garcia is a senior business reporter at the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at eric.garcia@fortworthreport.org.
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