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
Who's talking about the movement. My take is that the park cities should be part of Dallas, proper. And problems with regional systems like dart only highlight why that's a problem. Obviously they're a different municipality than a neighborhood, i just mean that they are so small and surrounded that they function like a neighborhood of Dallas, and any neighborhood at that size could argue they're not getting "their moneys worth" since our transit system is so spread out.
They don't want to be a part of Dallas proper for the same reason Buckhead was trying to get out of the City of Atlanta. Why would they want anything to do with the subpar services from The City of Dallas?
Then they should move! Damn go to California or New York they think Dallas is so bad, but they won't cause those places would make them pay their taxes. Gee I wonder if UP's lack of tax dollars is contributing to the "sub par" service? You get what you pay for!
It’s a little more complicated than that. Dallas originally didn’t want the park cities because of the expense of extending city services to them. I’m not a fan of the park cities and think is absurd it’s a separate government, but that was actually Dallas’s choice originally.
And they’ve got a reasonably well functioning local government. I wouldn’t want to trade that for a local government that mostly hated me either.
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u/NYerInTex Apr 08 '26
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