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'Flying taxis' part of 2011 Super Bowl plan

04:36 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 21, 2007

By BRAD HAWKINS / WFAA-TV

ARLINGTON - When Arlington got the green light for the 2011 Super Bowl it started work on a super plan.

In Texas, moving the biggest group of fans around the biggest pro-football stadium - well, it has to be big.

Some of those Texas taxis won't just be on the ground.

It already looks big - two years from the first play - three from a North Texas Super Bowl.

We'll have rail service to and from the game, as well as helicopter service.

Big screen action now is on the super, planning to move 250,000 additional people around North Texas that entire week, more than D/FW and Love Field.

There will also be a need to cater for corporate folks.

"People who are big sponsors of the game. People who want to come in and not have the hassle of the commercial airports," said Rachel Wiggins, a regional transportation planner with the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

They'll fly into Addison, Arlington, Grand Prairie - and many other of Texas' 300 smaller airports.

But the biggest change of all in this Texas-sized party - flying taxis, of sorts.

More control towers are in the works to handle the people who are above the freeway crowd.

Bell Textron is already testing a larger version of this tilt-rotor aircraft that could be ready, in droves, for VIPs.

If you have to take the asphalt run, construction already along I-30 allows for flexible lanes.

Big dreams can have big payoffs.

Wiggins hopes All-Star games, Democratic and Republican conventions - even the Olympics - will take place at the venue.

"The sky is the limit," she said.

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