Arlington spokeswoman Susan Schrock said the city does not plan to add a mass transit line within the city limits, but it is exploring other options.
“We’re exploring this technology as it becomes available,” she said.
Would anybody like to explain to this woman that trains and light rails exist? Or shit, even buses. What other fucking technology exists that’s more efficient than any of those options?!
LADY DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN MAKE A LONG CAR AND PUT PEOPLE IN IT AND RUN IT ON A SCHEDULE
EXPLORE THE TECHNOLOGY OF MY ASSHOLE
They don't want it because Arlington has a lot of rich enclaves that don't want the poors being able to get off in the area or spend literally any tax money. Several other suburban cities around Dallas that aren't as fucked as Arlington have some light rail and bus transit, even though it's terribly inadequate.
Additionally Arlington is stuck in the middle between Dallas and Fort Worth, which have populations of 1.4 million and 900 thousand, so the train transport between them just skips Arlington since the city won't spend any money to build stations.
Arlington is stuck in the middle between Dallas and Fort Worth, which have populations of 1.4 million and 900 thousand, so the train transport between them just skips Arlington
It may be time to revive the head -> desk meme.
my brain had its biggest growth spurt the day I was told that someone saying we need to wait for the data/studies/tech is code for "shut up and go away for 80 years" because that's about how long it takes for the data/studies/tech to happen
Technology as it becomes available is only an acceptable answer if you're going to start incorporating a rental jet pack system.
I don't think you can really be called a city without any public transit. overgrown town
The town I grew up in in the U.K. has a population of 14k and has buses with free WiFi, this shit is effectively just a census designated place in terms of civilization
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.
perfect
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.
Oh I exaggerated a little bit but you're completely right. See: the almost complete dismantling of public transit in the U.S. due to the "innovation" of the car (which really just causes traffic and pollution).
Right? Like I can't even imagine not having some form of public transit available, even in the smallest villages the bus usually at least comes twice a day.
I know I shouldn't be surprised anymore about stuff like this, but, wow. Sorry to everyone who has to live there.
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.
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.
All of the millennials I know that moved to Texas are fun but not smart.
What are y'all using to see articles behind these annoying paywall shits?
I usually try not to use Archive's bandwidth unless I actually care about something; is there like a good extension that auto-unblocks content from the source or is archive.is how everyone else was reading a random paywalled article?
I have something like this installed already but it seems to need individual sites to be configured into it by the maintainer like this one.
