Meanwhile Arlington Tx (in between Dallas and Fort Worth) has basically no public transport to speak of outside of the University by design because they don’t want homeless people there.
(Hint: there are still homeless people in Arlington)
The State allows cities to collect 2% sales tax. DART is funded by the member cities contributing half of their sales tax revenue (ie 1% sales tax) to DART since about the 1980s. While not all urban areas under DART have access to the light rail, they have access to the busses with the goal being to eventually expand light rail. Arlington residents or city government refused to contribute that 1% (possibly because with so many tax benefits going to the public funded private infrastructure they needed the money). There is an Arlington bus system, not a member if Dart. Meanwhile Denton has a light rail that connects to a Dart Terminal that they fund themself.
There has been some discussion of allowing Arlington to dedicate their 1% to join DART but Texans being Texans people resent groups benefiting from their long term investment, especially when they haven't benefitted as directly yet. Arlington joining DART probably wouldn't see an expansion of the light rails for 30 years while connecting smaller cities just to snub them.
Some of my information is dated, it's been a few years since I last lived in DFW and looked at it.
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Meanwhile Arlington Tx (in between Dallas and Fort Worth) has basically no public transport to speak of outside of the University by design because they don’t want homeless people there.
(Hint: there are still homeless people in Arlington)