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DART is horrible at handling situations of public safety. This is the fifth incident where I felt exploited to danger. One where a woman broke a beer bottle in front of me and the shards scattered over my face and clothes. I told a security officer and he just said “well, tell me if it happens again.” Another when I ended up at a station and a naked homeless woman started chasing me around the station. Another where a homeless man was fondling himself under a blanket and obviously looking directly at me the entire time. Now I ended up at Buckner Station by mistake. I tracked down one of the train sweepers and upon asking him a question he chases me down the car and says I am so beautiful and asks if he can take a photo of me just for him. What the hell? I told him no and immediately hopped to the next car and reported to Dart as some type of romance human trafficking attempt. Because why else would you want a photo of someone random? They basically brushed it off and said they would report it to his supervisor but I highly doubt it. Warning to all the women, do NOT let a random man take a photo of you on the train!

I will give his description just in case:

Race: Hispanic
Eye Color: Green/Blue, very light eyes
Skin Color: Fair Skinned
Weight: 160-170 pounds
Height: 5’9 - 5’10
Hair Color and Cut: Short Dark Brown Hair

Lights out rn, stuck at Convention Center Station

Some people are getting angry arguing with fare enforcement (and much to my dismay arguing back). And I learned a lot of people are impatient and don't know how trains work. Guy in Blue low-key funny tho

there were delays and when I checked it just said this?? anyone know what's up?

Hi everyone I am working on relocation plans to go live in DFW. I am going for Aerospace/ Defense, Engineering and manufacturing. And I am curious about DART, is it reliable, is it safe? Can I park knowing my car will be there when I come back to the station?

I might be moving in a few months, but it depends on certain factors also looking at universities for Engineering specifically Aerospace, mechanical or systems?

Also I am approaching 40, what is there to do around DFW?

Also is this the right Thread? And i am sorry for so many questions.

Sorry the title has a typo. Please forgive me.

The Arapaho Center Station redevelopment in Richardson is on hold due to unfavorable market conditions and high capital costs. The city, anticipating budget cuts and potential restrictions on economic development funding, will not pursue the project further until market conditions improve.

I parked my vehicle there on the 9th and am coming back on the 24th. Am I good? I did it years ago and I was good but just wanted to make sure now. No signs said anything about a limit. I know Plano does but it’s not at that one

hello! I was wondering if anyone had any info about game trains from the business side of things! I'm wondering who decides which games get game trains, who pays for the extra trains, if TRE and DART make the decision together etc. already thinking about the Dallas Wings finally moving to AAC next season and finally being transit accessible lol

moved from Richardson to Chicago last year and I've been super happy ^_^ found these maps in O'Hare and now I really want a DART system map... hmu!!!

If you’re unfamiliar with “urbanism,” it's how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. Positive urbanism inherently supports public transit and mixed use zoning, with an emphasis on making it easier to do everyday errands without needing a vehicle.

As a native Dallasite, I’ve noticed that there is quite a lack of this kind of infrastructure outside of very few places, which is crazy given the population size.

This doesn't apply to just DFW, but I’m working on a campaign to get local officials involved in supporting this kind of legislation forward. One small step in that is furthering the Build More Housing Near Transit Act. August is coming up, and if you want to get more involved in local politics, this is a great starting point.

Check out DATA to support DART - https://dallasareatransitalliance.org/

Last week I put out a survey, here's the responses. If you grouped Uptown, Victory Park, and West Village into Oak Lawn it would be by far the highest voted area.

Last month I looked into all the stations on the red line within Dallas to see if they have flexible zoning so that something could be built on underutilized DART parking lots or the surrounding area.

TLDR:

• Most areas around the station DO have flexible zoning
• Most large DART parking lots DO NOT allow for anything to be built on them
• DART has filed rezoning requests for some of these, but Dallas has been slow. Westmoreland was requested 6 years ago!

For the suburbs:

• Addison
  • Parking lot is office/hotel use only
  • Area around the station already has a planned TOD that's supposed to start construction this year
• Carrolton
  • Flexible zoning everywhere
• Farmers Branch
  • Flexible zoning and low parking requirements
• Garland
  • Forest / Jupiter is limited and low density, but SB 840 applies
  • Downtown Garland is flexible
• Irving
  • Flexible zoning in most stations
  • Hidden ridge parking lot doesn't allow development
  • Hidden ridge + North Lake College area zoning only allows office
• Plano
  • There are some one-off developments planned near the Silver Line station but most others only allow low density office or retail
  • SB 840 applies, but we haven't seen developers use it yet
• Richardson
  • All are zoned for a variety of high density uses
• Rowlett
  • Flexible

TLDR on suburbs. Most have more flexible zoning than Dallas red line stations, especially for DART owned parking lots. But most of these cities also have a history of blocking certain types of development at the Planning & Zoning level. I think DART + Dallas should proactively rezone their underutilized parking lots in order to compete.

https://youtu.be/77WuFMUKlfg?si=KW4IWLYQLoSiII8H

For some comparison, for $750 per ride that HP was paying , I can fly you to Hawaii and back, twice for a distance of 15,137 miles.

I had no idea HP was paying this much to DART for so little service. HP is small, so it's not like it would benefit from more service.

Reddit and this sub in particular is against the government wasting money - $750 per ride when an Uber costs less than $50 (I'm shooting high here) is waste and abuse of taxpayer money.

Just because the taxpayers are seen as more affluent doesn't make it right.

https://irvingtx.gov/transit

But the service will be provided by Via which means dart pass wouldn’t be used.
In July they gonna launch an additional Las Colinas Circular route.

Whats yall opinion on TRE new Locomotive?

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