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===Construction=== *On February 9, 2007, a trench collapsed during construction on the line killing one construction worker.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 9, 2007 |title=1 dead in DART rail construction accident |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/021007dnmetdartaccident.68f625c9.html |access-date=10 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013148/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/021007dnmetdartaccident.68f625c9.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref> *On March 12, 2007, the City of Dallas officials and DART made an agreement to make [[Burbank (DART station)|Burbank Station]] (formerly Love Field Station) a surface-level facility after a long debate of whether or not to make it an underground station.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hartzel |first=Tony |date=March 12, 2007 |title=Rail will not tunnel under Love Field |work=The Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/031307dnmetdartlove.39c0619.html |access-date=12 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201404/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/031307dnmetdartlove.39c0619.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> *Effective June 17, 2007, the Live Oak exit on [[Image:US 75.svg|20px]] ([[U.S. Route 75]]) was closed until 2009, as part of the Green Line Rail construction around the Bryan/Hawkins intersection. Two bridges in that area were removed and roads were lowered to street level.<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] |title=Construction Alerts - Live Oak Exit Closure |url=http://www.dart.org/about/expansion/construction.asp#liveoak |date=July 9, 2007}}</ref> *On June 8, 2009, full-speed tests of the Green Line were conducted successfully with local officials and members of the media aboard.<ref>{{cite news |last=Visser |first=Nancy |author2=Bruce Tomaso |date=June 9, 2009 |title=DART hosts riders as it tests span of Green Line project |work=Dallas Morning News |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/0609dnmetdart.5eeb7bea.html |access-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115022334/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/0609dnmetdart.5eeb7bea.html |archive-date=15 January 2010}}</ref> The route of the test included the four stations, then still under construction, that joined the DART light rail system in September 2009.
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