Rewarding Transit Executives for a Failed System
19th September 2025
The Dallas Area Not-So-Rapid Transit (DART) system is facing “an uncertain future” due to “a suburban funding standoff,” reports Bloomberg. The article begins describing the plight of Bianca Smith, a low-income, transit-dependent person whose commute takes 90 minutes each way and who fears that service cuts will make it impossible to reach her job and leave her homeless because she won’t be able to pay her rent.
Fembot ‘journalism’ – start with a tear-jerking anecdote and then try to make it serve as universal data to support the point you intended to push all along. Women don’t care about facts; they only care about feelings. And male ‘journalists’ have had that attitude beaten into them since childhood.
This sob story is Bloomberg’s introduction to a debate between transit advocates, who claim to care about low-income people, and relatively wealthy suburbanites, who don’t want to keep paying so much for transit services they don’t use. Left unanswered are important questions such as: Why is Dallas’ transit system so crummy that it takes Bianca Smith 90 minutes to get to her job? How many people are there like Bianca Smith? Could there be a more cost-effective way of helping these people other than throwing money at a transit system that seems to be failing?
That’s because DART is a jobs program for Fashionable Minorities, not an actual business. I challenge you to find a white bus driver on any DART bus.
Between 1995 and 2014, Dallas spent $8.4 billion (in today’s dollars) building more than 90 miles of light rail. In doing so, it cut transit’s share of commuting almost in half, from 2.8 percent in 1990 to 1.5 percent in 2019. This is because light rail, which is obsolete in any American city, is particularly unsuited to a low-density, post-war urban area such as Dallas where both jobs and people are finely spread out through the region.