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To: i-node who wrote (800647)	8/9/2014 11:26:01 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1583869

Dave, we're well aware Texans need to get to where the need to go without having to walk very far.

To: i-node who wrote (800647)	8/10/2014 9:21:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583869

>> 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. You're so proud of your people and their stubbornness. LOL. 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. I guess it was another winger fail. So sorry. 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. That's right. That's why its a big fail. Wasn't done right. They wanted to come in cheap and they got what they paid for. 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. Yeah, well sprawling is your other problem.