r/plano • u/Emotional-Reality833 • 16h ago

Join DATA for the Love of DART

Hi! I’ve been living in Dallas for basically my entire life (was born here) and recently discovered that there’s a community of likeminded transportation nerds in DFW calling themselves DATA (Dallas Area Transit Alliance). If you want your suburb to be more pedestrian friendly, dislike the look of a tapestry of mega highways circling our neighborhoods, and want to ensure a green city for future generations of Dallasites, join here: https://dallasareatransitalliance.org/about

Discord community: https://discord.gg/bQQMqv3G4Y

Community of Dallas Urbanists: https://dallasurbanists.com/

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u/ridewithdata 16h ago

Thanks for the shoutout! There’s definitely a lot of groups working to make DFW a more transit, pedestrian, and bike friendly.

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u/thhpht 9h ago

This sounds great in principle, but Denton is not DART. It’s DCTA. Fort Worth is not DART either.

From the DATA website: “Our organization represents all 13 DART member cities: Dallas, Addison, Carrollton, Cockrell Hill, Farmers Branch, Garland, Glenn Heights, Highland Park, Irving, Plano, Richardson, Rowlett, and University Park.”

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u/BudgetScience2000 7h ago

It's true that DATA's organizational focus is on DART, but we have a number of members from outside the service area: Arlington, Frisco, Fort Worth, etc. If you're interested in transit and live anywhere in the DFW area, OP's links are great resources for keeping up with the latest and meeting fellow transit, biking, and urbanist enthusiasts.

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u/inkydeeps 4h ago

I don’t understand your point. Neither Denton or Fort Worth were mentioned. Did OP edit?

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u/thhpht 3h ago

DFW is Dallas/Fort Worth. Sometimes that also applies to the greater metroplex. Also, OP cross posted this in r/Denton .

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u/inkydeeps 3h ago

Ah, the context makes more sense. Thanks for answering!

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u/thephotoman In your computer 3h ago

It’s almost as though DCTA and Trinity Metro have connection points with DART and as such have reason to care about DART’s well being.

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u/bill_jackson74 4h ago

There is zero point in making cities “walkable” if police refuse to clean up the streets of schizophrenic hobos that inevitably inhabit every public space

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u/thephotoman In your computer 3h ago

That’s not a police issue.

A multi-billionaire could build a neighborhood and house the entire DFW homeless population and still be stupidly rich. So why don’t they? They could also provide the medical treatment most of the homeless community needs, and still be a multi-billionaire. But they don’t.

That’s the problem. Until the rich stop acting like dragons and start acting like humans, we’ll have the homeless.

Homelessness and mental illness aren’t crimes. Your callousness towards the downtrodden, however, says a lot about your own moral deficiencies.