The Strangest Poll Ever
DART stinks! Long live DART!
DART has ended the 225 and 255 bus routes in Irving, as we have covered here. They ended them because no one used them, except perhaps for homeless people riding around all day.
At irvinghomeless.com, a person can sign up for text alerts:
These are not put out by the city, but by LifeChange Housing Associates (LCHA), a nonprofit that operates IrvingHomeless.com and the Irving Inclement Weather Shelter, which just got a grant for $100,000 from the City of Irving.
Here’s an alert that went out this weekend:
The link takes you to the weirdest poll ever:
Wow — did they create a poll for homeless people on the elimination of DART bus routes?
It sure seems like they did.
The idea behind this survey seems to be that we should be super mad that DART ended these routes, and that apparently they should keep paying $2.16 million per bus route to take homeless from one place back to that same place.
The poll is illogical. If you are seriously going to make the case that DART should not have ended the bus routes, you should at least pretend that they were more than an wildly expensive mobile inclement weather shelter for the unhoused.
The problem with DART, as we covered here, is that the advent of rideshares led to a severe decline in ridership. And the riders they are losing are the middle class commuters, who can pay a few bucks more for way more convenient door-to-door service (no walking, waiting, and transferring!).
Ridership of a certain clientele is down, and then what happens? From a recent post of ours:
Our citizens using DART includes very few commuters — only 2,000 folks in Irving depend on DART; we could purchase each of them a new 2025 BMW 2‑Series every year with the money! — and with regular ridership in decline, there’s been an uptick in crime throughout the DART system. There have been five homicides in the last twelve months, and six weeks ago a 28-year old was shot by a rando at a DART station. Young people who use DART once report never wanting to repeat the experience ever again. Here’s a grown man who reported on his misadventures.
Given this reality of declining ridership, what does DART do? They build a whole new Silver line that opened late October, going East-West connecting northern suburbs to the DFW airport. The Silver Line was originally pitched as roughly a $1.2–$1.3 billion project, but ended up over $2 billion, plus higher-than-expected operating costs (of course).
What a terrible idea. Take the Silver Line — the new cars are gleaming — but there will be maybe six people on it.
We cannot get out of DART soon enough.
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