What it means is opportunity – for jobs and careers, for neighborhoods ambitious for rejuvenation, for businesses looking to expand and attract workers.
It also offers people the un-Dallas-like opportunity to wean themselves from a car-dependent lifestyle, while giving those who can't afford a car an efficient way to travel.
More parts of Dallas can begin exploring the possibilities starting Monday, when the new Green Line begins service with the opening of four stations southeast of downtown.
Rail transit service is as transformative as community leaders want to make it. Neighborhoods and City Hall must focus intensely on the opportunities after waiting 26 years for Green Line service, going back to the multi-city vote to create DART in 1983.
A host of other communities will be waiting till next year for the opening of 16 more stations on the line, from Carrollton to the northwest to Pleasant Grove in the southeast – 28 new miles in all.
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