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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (800637)8/9/2014 7:59:42 PM
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>> To answer your question, its probably not one thing..

You are never going to get large numbers of people in Dallas to ride trains. Will not happen. And you sure as hell aren't going to get people who live in Plano to take a train to downtown. They're going to drive their BMWs.

The earliest DART facility (a park-and-ride bus station) was located near my house. It was empty, even after the establishment of HOV lanes that made the trip faster. Because once you got downtown, you still had a long way to go to get wherever it was you were headed.

The Blue & Green lines are built totally along previously existing rail ROW. The Red Line North follows Central Expressway into Plano. The Green Line uses some existing rail.

But the thing makes no sense. My daughter drives daily from Ft. Worth to her office in North Dallas. No train comes anywhere close to either end of that route. There is zero rail coverage for the entire NW quadrant of Dallas, which is a huge piece of land.

And that's the point. It isn't NYC where everyone is crammed into a small space. Rail is totally infeasible in large, sprawling [your word] areas. Because it doesn't get you where you need to go.
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