The two arches that frame the DART Silver Line bridge over US 75 are now lit at night, after Richardson City Council members and DART officials held a lighting ceremony this week, according to the city's news site.
The accent lighting is white and blue. Each arch is about 400 feet long and rises about 80 feet above the roadway at its highest point, the city says, and the pair is meant to act as a gateway and a visual signature for Richardson, seen both by train riders and by drivers on the highway below.
The lights follow an installation job that tied up traffic this summer. Crews hauled the southern arch beneath the highway from its staging area in early June and lifted it into place over that weekend, with overnight closures of US 75's main lanes, frontage roads and ramps between US 75 and the President George Bush Turnpike, plus a rolling closure of Renner Road.
Silver Line trains between Shiloh Road Station in Plano and the UTD Station stopped running at night during that work, with shuttle buses filling in, the city said at the time. The northbound arch followed in July.
The white and blue lighting was already in the plans when the council was briefed on the arches in May.