$10 Million a Year for Eleven Commuters
8th December 2025
Taxpayers in Highland Park, Texas pay $10 million a year to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) system, which carried 22 Highland Park commuters to work on a typical weekday before the pandemic, but only 11 in more recent years. This raises an important question: is the purpose of public transit to provide efficient transportation, or is the purpose to transfer money from wealthy suburbanites to transit bureaucracies?