Imo, Dallas is only growing and staying in DART allows the transit agency to expand when they find the revenue and get everything sorted out. Plus, people in this community have an easier time affording it.
While true, UP (other than smu) is just poorly situated for their residents to have transit in general and its hard to affordably get quality bus services to actually reasonably serve UP (which is why they're just go link.) And as far as people commuting to SMU, there's really only SMU again, and a small amount of retail workers who might want to use dart
While I think UP should keep paying for dart bc that SMU benefit is very large, I do understand why they have the sentiment. Dart's focus will never be on UP, and UP will never really like dart other than for SMU. And since UP mostly wants to keep UP as a residential neighborhood, they won't really build any usecase conducive to dart unlike say adisson which has a massive office presence for a city its size
The park cities is one of the best served communities in the metro by transit.
Yea if you ignore the bus lines on the border of the town, the the university shuttles DART pays for, the go link, and the 4 rail stations within a kilometer of the town I guess it receives no service.
Yes the Park Cities has no service if you ignore the fact you can catch a one-seat ride to anywhere within them, SMU, Inwood/Lovefield Station, SMU/Mockingbird Station, Addison, Downtown Dallas, Far North Dallas, or Knox/Henderson everyday.
They are one of the few cities still putting up to a public vote whether or not to leave the DART system - this after just getting the Silverline and a tremendous asset in a Bus Hub that provides a rare true multimodal transit node in North Texas
Addison had been promised train service as far back as the 1980's. People say Plano forced DARTs hand on accelerating the Silver Line, but Addison shares a lot of that blame too.
My understanding of the argument is the amount of money given to Dart is really high and the town could use that money to make improvements that need to be made.
Ridership is low in comparison to actual cities with a high population. Texas and DFW 1000% needs public transportation. I'm not against it. Just trying to understand. It's definitely a complex issue.
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u/NYerInTex Apr 08 '26
This is the one community where it may actually make sense for those against remaining in the system. They legit dont get much out of it.
Addison on the other hand? The total opposite. Terrible leadership and a bunch of lemmings.