The local conspiracy theory is that this is because Jerry Jones owns the parking lots near Cowboys Stadium and Globe Life Park (both of which are in Arlington). If there was public transit to get to baseball or football games, that’d be a ton of free money out the window.
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.
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I live around there, I live in fear that my 2001 4runner will break down. Not a single bus, and only one bike lane in a road that leads nowhere.
I don’t think you can really be called a city without any public transit. overgrown town
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.
