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LOL this defeats the whole purpose of this conversation. The objective of rail is to move you across the city, and possibly become an alternative to the car. You guys enjoy your heavy rail system with limited destinations; while Dallasites are leaving their cars at home because they have the option of taking rail to any destination they desire.
Right but from the looks of your ridership numbers it looks like. People are still driving there cars while with. Our so called limited services is keeping almost 300.000 people pff the road.
No, your logic is flawed and your comparison is weak. DC, NYC, and SF are much more dense and urban cities than Dallas. Sprawl isn't as bad there as it is in ATL and Dallas. Why do you think ATL and Dallas have so much more mileage of rail compared to those cities? Because they sprawl more and the population centers are more spread out.
No its not they serve the same purpose. They get you from point A to point B
That is the absolute worst comparrison Ive ever heard. DC, NYC, and San Francisco have superior systems because of how extensive their coverage is, not because it looks better or because its underground. Also these cities are dense urban centers (Dallas or Atlanta will never be able to touch the densities these cities have). Its easier to be that extensive when you have cities set up like that.
Right which marta stations are in a. More urban setting than dart.
Based on what you said it doesn't matter rather its light rail or heavy rail they both get you from point A to B its all the same those were your words
Based on what you said it doesn't matter rather its light rail or heavy rail they both get you from point A to B its all the same those were your words
Yes, and I belive that. All things being equal (meaning if a system has the same amount of lines and same amount of stations), heavy rail is better. But its better to have more stations and more lines with light rail than less stations with less lines on heavy rail for coverage.
So well ours go into the suburbs to and its still. In urban areas. Let's do this dart will have more coverage and marta will have higher ridership numbers
As Dallas ridership increase you can always add more trains. Capacity want be a issue. I looked at the DART trains and some had more trains than other depending on the demand for the area.
Cannot easily do that without spending money. By the time you are done spending money to get new cars, you might as well have gotten heavy rail. That's how expensive the cars are. Light Rail will never carry the same amount of passengers as heavy rail. But that's ok. Dallas will get heavy rail in time. I bet if Atlanta could do it over, they would go with light rail themselves. Even DC is building light rail now in the city.
Let's do this dart will have more coverage and marta will have higher ridership numbers
and on this we are in agreement.
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