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[quote user="daveklepper"] Have you not thought that perhaps the planners for some very good reason wishes to restore the centrality of downtown?   That they hoped the light rail system would reduce urban sprawl and restore the centrality fo the center? [/quote] Planning actually got underway whilst downtown was the major employment center in Dallas. Subsequently, for a variety of reasons, downtown fell apart, but it is staging a comeback. Some relatively large employers have returned to the CBD.  Many of the old office buildings have been converted into apartments and condos.  Approximately 5,000 to 6,000 people live downtown. When I worked downtown, which was up to 2007, you could count on one hand the number of people living downtown.  The Metroplex is continuing to expand outward. Houston, San Antonio, and Austin to a lesser extent, have experienced the same trends seen in Dallas. With the exception of Houston, which has a seven mile inner city light rail system, none of the others have a light rail system.  If they are seeing the same trends as Dallas, i.e. some return of the CBD but continued expansion of the metropolitan area, it is hard to say that the light rail system was a deciding factor.
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