Currently the Katy Trail starts at the American Airlines Center and ends suddenly just shy of the SMU Campus near the old bread plant that SMU just announced development plans for.  But for many years the City has had a plan to extend the trail all the way up to the Whiterock DART Station.  Well construction started recently on that new leg of the Katy Trail.  It will follow the DART right of way for mostly from Mockingbird Station East. 
 
The part conspicuously missing from the plans is the ...

Many of you may have read a year or more back that the East Dallas YMCA at Whiterock lake was planning to build a connection to the trail system.  Well getting that designed and funded proved to be a lot of work but thanks to all the groups working together this is finally looking like it will happen.

The Santa Fe Trail will be running right behind the YMCA and will require a spur off the trail, a bridge and then the trail will continue all the way to Gaston Road.  Thanks to this new tra...