DART Worst Transit Agency in America, Thanks to Dallas' Suburban In-Laws
After five Dallas city appointees to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board defeated a suburban-backed, billion-dollar borrowing scheme by DART on Tuesday, the usual grumbling and ominous threats of withdrawals of membership in and support for the agency burbled up from the 'burbs. The city, they said, had better do what the suburbs want or they might pull out.
This is like a guy who has already fathered 10 unfed, out-of-wedlock children threatening to pull out. Good idea!
OK, we have talked at some length already about the issue they were voting on Tuesday, so I don’t want to take you on another deep-in-the-weeds tour. It’s about the city not wanting DART to borrow huge sums to build more silly-string rail lines in the burned-out cotton fields of rural North Texas at the expense of downtown, where rail might actually work.
Let’s not do that one again. Let’s talk about something else even more important. Since the founding of DART in 1983, the city has been shackled to the suburbs in the creation of what has become the nation’s dumbest mass-transit system.
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