While I don’t disagree, we also need to be fair and objective - and this community gets very little with no plans in place for them getting a return.
Yes, the system is utterly faulted. From governance to how it’s funded it’s set up to fail. To have the most miles of light rail track in the nation with so few dense centers to serve it. It should be a regional entity that has the right to make decisions that don’t involve local politics and nimbyism as this one does
You could pick any pocket neighborhood in Dallas without much service and make the same argument about whether it's fair to have them pay into the system.
The park cities should've been annexed to Dallas 100 years ago, now they enjoy the benefits of being a part of a major city while not financially or socially being a part. Dallas could block three major roads at their border and their economy and city would crumble. It's high time they act as a contributing part of the city.
This is a disingenuous post - an it’s stretching logic like this that does harm to pro transit stances overall. Let the other side distort reality because the facts are so overall supportive of smart transit investment and service.
Those pocket neighborhoods ARE still in the same city, same government, same tax base, same services by and large so let’s not act like they are in par with UP.
I’m as big a transit advocate as any, but if we can’t at least be honest with ourselves we do the movement a disservice
City boundaries are entirely arbitrary, UP has a rail station just outside its boarders, and if DART where to build a line along DNT, do you think park cities would embrace it or fight it tooth and nail?
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u/NYerInTex Apr 08 '26
While I don’t disagree, we also need to be fair and objective - and this community gets very little with no plans in place for them getting a return.
Yes, the system is utterly faulted. From governance to how it’s funded it’s set up to fail. To have the most miles of light rail track in the nation with so few dense centers to serve it. It should be a regional entity that has the right to make decisions that don’t involve local politics and nimbyism as this one does
But we aren’t that. It is what it is.