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Approximately 30 to 35 per cent of the people who work in the Central Business District use DART to get to and from work.  I don't have the breakdown between buses and light rail, but plenty of folks still ride the bus.  I did because the light rail system did not come close to my house and, moreover, running a feeder bus to the closest light rail station was not practicable.   The last time I checked, which was a couple of years ago, Dallas and the surrounding communities had 34 major employment centers.  And this is the big problem for public transit in Dallas, especially for rail.  Most people don't work downtown, but the light rail system is a downtown oriented hub and spoke system.   In FY13 the average weekday ridership on the buses was 128,511 passenger trips (not person trips) vs. 96,272 passenger trips for the light rail system.  Some of the trips were linked, i.e. the person rode a bus for part of the distance and then transferred to the light rail system.  The average trip subsidy for the buses was $5.26 vs. $3.82 for the light rail.
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