Saturday, October 31, 2009

DART -- In Dallas, You Don’t Get What You Don’t Pay For

From: DC.StreetsBlog.org
By: Sarah Goodyear // September 16, 2009

On Monday, we featured a post from The Transit Pass that called out Dallas as one of the U.S. cities in which the proportion of transit users to population is sadly anemic.

Today, we'll take a closer look at transit in the Dallas area, from a couple of angles.

First, courtesy of the Dallas Transportation Blog at the Dallas Morning News, a report on passenger frustration with delays on the city's newest light rail route, the DART Green Line. Those delays are causing ripple effects throughout the city's transit system, and it's not clear when they will be resolved. Stories in the paper about the delays have gotten a lot of comments from readers angry that the problems were not better anticipated and planned for.

But reporter Michael Lindenberger says the city's voters need to take some responsibility for the way the system is developing.

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