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Originally Posted by 10023
I was going to say... it seems like there are a lot of track miles, but stations are sparse and not located in transit-friendly areas. It’s a commuter rail based on park & ride, not a high-frequency mass transit system.
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That is exactly what DART is in my recollection. My experience with DART is over a decade old, but sounds like it might still be current. The train line I used did have a lot of track miles, but only because it is an attempt to connect downtown to some very sprawled out and car-centric areas. I took the DART from downtown Dallas, which is reasonably pedestrian friendly, to one of the malls that was supposedly accessible from the train line. It felt like about a 20-30 minute ride on the train with only a handful of stops between downtown and the mall. From the stop it was a pretty long walk to the actual mall itself (maybe half a mile?), a lot of it through the malls sprawling parking lot. There was no transit oriented development around that stop to speak of at the time.
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