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meaning that reaching the suburbs is irrelevant bc it doesn’t connect btwn the suburban employment districts that have the most new multifamily apartments. The DART system doesn’t acknowledge that the DFW metroplex is a multi-nodal employment region & therefore few use it 2/2
Your hub-spoke point is a good one. Notwithstanding the cost, I'd like to see a line that is basically a concentric circle around the suburbs. That said, I don't think that's the only reason why people don't use the dart.
First, there is a bus system that should address your hub-spoke point. And there are enough people moving between Plano and downtown (as opposed to Plano to like Frisco) for ridership. The problems are that the areas around the stations are not walkable.
So, if you want to get to a dart station, most likely you must drive. After you arrive, most likely you must drive again. Even if you courageously walk you must deal with very wide roads with fast cars. It's not pleasant. The other thing is that car travel is just so much faster!
Given the current density of Dallas and high cost and time involved in building rail, BRT would more than likely be a better investment.
The mode should probably be dictated by compatibility with the existing system. If a route aligns w/ an existing rail corridor, then rail might be the best option. In other places a BRT corridor shared by multiple bus routes might be best.
Circle wouldn’t be as useful as a few east west lines that don’t serve downtown Dallas. The current system suffers from long headways bc of all routes using downtown track (hence the new downtown route being planned), if some weren’t headed downtown then headways could be higher
Headways? Yeah that makes sense. They building the cottonbelt line that will do as you say.
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