at a total cost of approximately $190 million, which was more cost effective than buying entirely new light rail vehicles. G. James Morgan of LTK Engineering Services estimated that DART saved over $50 million by converting its LRVs instead of buying new accessible vehicles.

Conversion of an individual LRV into an SLRV took roughly five weeks, with a sixth week for inspection and testing and the vehicle in main line operation by the next week. By March 2010, 84 of DART's 115 LRVs had been