Public Transportation and Smart Growth

I suspect that most Highland Park residents won’t miss DART bus service, but a lot of the service workers who clean their houses or work at the Highland Park Village shopping center will either ask for higher wages or tell their employers that working for them simply isn’t worth it.

I came from a privileged background and remember an earlier spat that Highland Park had with the former Dallas Transit System. I took the DTS bus to school because it was far faster than the school’s bus. I was lucky: I was young and spry and my folks lived at the southern edge of Highland Park and I could walk to the nearest bus stop in Dallas’ Oak Lawn neighborhood and did so until the spat was settled.

Of course this was before the Republican Party’s holy war against public transit went into high gear…