![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall the research paints a picture of a system that has tried to keep up with sprawl (and, impressively, boasts the nation’s longest light-rail network) and failed. Only about 20 percent of the population has access to high-frequency transit during morning and afternoon peak hours, and during off-peak hours, that number drops to about 9 percent. Beyond that, the system doesn’t do a very good job of matching people up with jobs - upwards of 65 percent of transit-dependent residents have access to less than 4 percent of regional jobs - and the city’s characteristic sprawl makes transit difficult to access. The most alarming figure from the briefing conducted by professor Shima Hamidi from the University of Texas at Arlington and the city’s Chief of Resilience Theresa O’Donnell earlier this week has to do with affordability: Transportation is unaffordable to 97 percent of Dallas’ population. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is unaffordable, inaccessible and helping to contribute to regional poverty and downward mobility, new research concludes. ![]()
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