Arlington spokeswoman Susan Schrock said the city does not plan to add a mass transit line within the city limits, but it is exploring other options.
“We’re exploring this technology as it becomes available,” she said.
Would anybody like to explain to this woman that trains and light rails exist? Or shit, even buses. What other fucking technology exists that’s more efficient than any of those options?!
LADY DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN MAKE A LONG CAR AND PUT PEOPLE IN IT AND RUN IT ON A SCHEDULE
EXPLORE THE TECHNOLOGY OF MY ASSHOLE
They don’t want it because Arlington has a lot of rich enclaves that don’t want the poors being able to get off in the area or spend literally any tax money. Several other suburban cities around Dallas that aren’t as fucked as Arlington have some light rail and bus transit, even though it’s terribly inadequate.
Additionally Arlington is stuck in the middle between Dallas and Fort Worth, which have populations of 1.4 million and 900 thousand, so the train transport between them just skips Arlington since the city won’t spend any money to build stations.
I don’t think you can really be called a city without any public transit. overgrown town
From 1892 until 1951, a mineral well drilled exactly in the middle of downtown Arlington, Texas, was a key reason to visit the town. The water was part of the city’s brand, also serving as a meeting point for everything from prohibition to the right of women to vote. The well has been paved over.
perfect
What fucking psychos
This is the end goal of neoliberalism. All public transit is liquidated and we are left with “innovative” startups that provide cheaper fares for Pell Grant recipients who start businesses that operate for three years in disadvantaged communities.
You jest, but that actually is the program. You liquidate the existing public transit programs and divert organizational energy of the workers into getting back what they already had. Then you blue ball them when their movement picks up steam by announcing an “innovative” transit solution (from a private company). It turns out to just be another vaporware gadgetbahn that gets millions and millions in public finding for a single broken prototype that takes 5 years to be unveiled before getting mothballed 2 months later.
In the meantime you’ve successfully diverted organizing energy away from other projects, you’ve satiated the liberals by making headlines and doing “innovation” and you’ve funneled millions out of the public purse into a shell company for someone who you work for. So goes the cycle of austerity. Doesn’t end until we just kill them and bury their bodies under the tram tracks they paved of over.
Not even a bus. Literally unlivable
