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[quote user="henry6"]  [quote user="Samantha"] DART wraps the buses because they are mostly used by low income people who lack the know how and political leverage to complain.  [/quote] Well, I beg your pardon!  Sorry, but transit advertising has been around for almost as long as there has been transit.  And your comment is very derogatory (elite snobbery?) to so many who ride commuter trains lined with advertising cards from stations with platforms full of advertising.  And a lot of those commuters are not low income people who lack anything!  As far as wraps blocking views from the inside.  They don't.  Windows are already tinted dark because of air conditioning and for eliminating the need for shades or curtains of old.  You can't see out at night or on dark days not because of a wrap but because of the windows.  Same with most automobiles now adays.[/quote]Transit advertising has been part of public transit for as long as I can remember, which is nearly 65 years.  But for the most part it is has been confined to advertising inside the vehicle, in panels over the seats, on the outside of the vehicle, and at the stations.  Painting over the windows is a recent practice at least in Dallas and Austin.I said that most of DART's bus riders, as opposed to the train riders, are low income with exceptions.  Many though not all of the train riders are middle class.  In other words, with exceptions, the people who ride the city buses tend to come from a different socio-economic stratum than the people who favor the trains.  In Dallas, at least, most of the people who use the commuter trains come from middle class suburbs.  The commuter rail stations and trains have no advertising.  None!If you rode any of the buses in Dallas or Austin that have been wrapped, you would know that screen painting the windows severely blocks the ability to see out of them.  Again, as stated, I ride the bus three days a week.  I know what I am talking about, as opposed to many people who have an opinion about the joys of riding transit but who seldom if ever use it.
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