MAX, officially DART Express Bus Route 221,[1] ran from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on weekdays,[2] at a frequency of approximately 30 minutes and 18 daily departures.
[1][3] The route traveled south from CentrePort/DFW Airport station on State Highway 360 to Division Street, where it turned west and stopped at Six Flags Over Texas.
[3] After the defeat of a 25-cent sales tax increase to build a public transit system in 2002, plans were scaled back to a series of pilot projects.
[9] Sales taxes had already been allocated to pay debts related to the construction of Globe Life Park in Arlington, a baseball stadium for the Texas Rangers.
[16] One of the stated goals of the pilot project was to shift voter opinion of public transit into support for a larger system funded with taxes.