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Originally Posted by iheartthed
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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A half mile walk isn't bad in an urban environment IMO. I have a 0.3 mile walk to the L from my house and a 0.25 mile from the L to work. I used to have to walk 0.5 miles from my house to the L and it was very manageable. Walking through a truly urban environment is considerably more pleasant than walking through seas of parking lots and vacant parcels. That (among other things) undeniably contributes to the low use of transit in DFW.
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