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The company already exists, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Forth Worth T, the local bus and commuter rail systems. Unlike Amtrak, DART bought all of the abandoned railroad lines around Dallas including the former Rock Island extension from Fort Worth to Dallas on the northside of the Trinity River. Today both DART and the T run a commuter rail over the line with ever increasing ridership, on this line alone, up to 9,000 riders a day. In a few years, when the line will have a connection to the large DTW airport besides the connector buses they run today, ridership could possibly double or triple.... I read recently about the woes of the Sounder Transit in the Seattle area, and I have to admit that at least Dallas did something right with our local transit system. We hired the best, Roger Snoble , and he presented a starter plan to be built in 10 years, with an additional plan to be built in 20 years. It went to a vote of the people, and it passed easily, 80 percent. The key to DART is the one cent sales tax in which a half cent goes for the buses, and the other half cent goes for the commuter rails. Everyone so liked the starter system, DART went to the public and again won with an 80 percent majority to hasten the second phase by 5 years with another $ 1 billion bond package. No one in the Dallas Fort Worth area thinks freeways are the answer anymore. No matter how much the government expands the freeways, from 4 to 6 to 8 to 10 and even to 12 lanes, they fill up as quick as you build them. So now they are building 6 lanes of turnpike, and hope as they raise the toll, they can keep the turnpike moving.... They are even thinking that they might change the freeways into turnpikes whenever they rebuild them again.... On the first of July, DART will have built the first part of the second phase, from Loop 12 on the northside of town all the way to FM 544 in Plano. DART has already built from SH 66 in Garland to Loop 12 on the southside of town, and from Westmoreland on the south- westside of town to Loop 12 on the northside of town. The second part of the second phase, to be finished in 5 years, will build a new line from I-635 and US 175 on the southeast side of town to I-35E and SH 190 (the new George Bu***urnpike) on the north-westside of town.... Pretty impressive for a $2 billion project of commuter rail. No one inside Dallas County will be more than 6 miles away from a commuter rail line.......
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