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• Orange line off peak to Parker road is something they have considered in the past. If enough people push for it they may do it
  • https://www.dart.org/futureprojects (survey here)
• 883 east frequency boost likely coming fall semester
  • This route gets overcrowded
• 883 west and east combined ridership has seen numbers as high as 8,000 riders per day
• Later hours and weekend service GoLink has resulted in huge ridership gains
  • Though keep in mind, GoLink is still low capacity. The two streetcar lines (mainly the m-line) see more ridership than all GoLink zones combined
    • Although this may no longer be true with more weekend and late night service on the GoLink
• There are two tiers of bus system improvements
  • Tier one, which increases frequency on select routes
    • Cheaper to implement, will come within 5 years more likely than not
    • Around 12 routes to see frequency improvements in tier one
    • my tier one map is missing some super small and minor details (DART PLEASE MAKE THIS MAP AVAILABLE IN HIGH QUALITY)
  • Tier two, which increases frequency system wide and on select routes
    • Tier two feels too good to be true
    • The frequent routes now run 15 minutes from 6 am to 10 pm 7 days a week
    • The local coverage routes now run 30 minutes all day 6 am to 10 pm 7 days a week
    • Many routes in the suburbs, south dallas, oak cliff, and pleasant grove see promotions that go beyond the system wide improvements
    • Way more expensive to implement, but DART is going to make it work as more money becomes available and as they re-prioritize projects in their financial plan
    • We can expect this to happen a little bit after 5 years, but its still up in the air. Staff seems very motivated to make tier two happen though
• TRE Sunday service is something DART staff wants, but Trinity Metro is more hesitant on
  • More details regarding this here
• When DART increases or adds weekend service, ridership on the weekdays improves
• When DART increases late night service, ridership during the day improves
• When DART improves frequency, ridership improves on the route to fill in some of the new capacity enabled by the frequency

• Plano City Managers happy with GoLink Service, but they want more fixed route service
• DART is primarily considering more east-west service in Plano
  • Main route bring considered is a route that runs on spring creek from parker road station
  • Have your own suggestions? dart.org/futureprojects
• This is apart of the area plans DART is making. For different sections of the service area, DART is making more focused plans and analysis for specific cities/neighborhoods to see what can be done to improve transit.
• New golink zone near the air port in Irving
  • But I suspect we will see GoLink zones expanded, and new ones come up to fill in the few remaining gaps in service DART has

• Route 57 (westmoreland), sees ridership of over 3,500 per day, most popular route
• The route 57 is the closest route to getting enough ridership to get federal funding for a bus rapid transit conversion
• DART will do infrastructure upgrades on their highest ridership/frequency, most unreliable bus routes to improve speed and reliability
  • Potential upgrades includes queue jumps, bus lanes, signal priority
• Bus reliability will still improve significantly without the infrastructure improvements. Some routes see on time performance below 70%, while others are higher than 90%, but the general average is around 83-85% (where On time performance is defined a bus coming between 1 minute early and no more than 5 minutes late)
  • Tweaks and adjustments are being made to improve the worst performers
  • 85% is not too bad considering the reality that buses have to share the road with traffic
    • but with infrastructure upgrades it could do better
• DART already has funding for bus corridor improvements in their financial plan
• If you notice your bus getting delayed at a particular intersection or road, let them know by emailing [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) they want to know where your bus needs the most help to get moving. They want to know where their infrastructure improvements need to go
• They want to do this on their most frequent routes. This includes routes slated to get frequency improvements in tier one and tier two

• DART does not need D2 to achieve 10 minute headways on the rail
  • improvements to mocking bird, pearl, and west end junctions are needed though
  • More details here
• If we want to go Beyond 10 minute headways, we will probably need D2
• While Tier Two focuses on achieving more 15 minute and 30 minute service, Nadine Lee's goal is to achieve 10 minute service on the frequent bus and light rail
  • But this is really long term from what I can tell. I'm not expecting this to happen anytime soon
• I asked about increasing frequencies by adding north south lines, such as a Parker Road to Buckner line that bypasses downtown
  • The problem is, whenever you have a train going from cityplace/uptown to deep ellum station, it blocks trains going to or from pearl for 3 minutes
  • This means DART cannot operate this kind of service as of right now

• Texas killed transit expansion across the state when they allowed sales tax to be used for property tax abatement or economic development
  • This leaves no money for transit, since cities can only allocate 2% of their sales tax
  • Any city with transit today has transit because they allocated their sales tax BEFORE they had any other way to spend it
  • Transit didn't just stop expanding to new cities in DFW, but the whole state of Texas
• Attempts have been made to pass a transportation choices act
  • This would allow Texas cities to add a new transit tax that is EXEMPT from the 2% sales tax limit on municipal governments
  • It would be completely up to the municipality and its voters, its a choice.
  • Did not go very far in the state legislature, but did have some support from democrats and republicans
• TxDot legally CANNOT spend a dime on public transportation
  • any dollar TxDot gives to DART or other transit agencies is just money funneled through the Federal department of transportation
    • This is money that could have only be spent on transit
  • This limit is imposed on TxDot by the state constitution
• Needless to say, a lot needs to change at the state level
  • Texas hamstrings public transportation
• Apparently, TxDot is starting to open up to public transportation more and more
  • Though it seems like they have a long ways to go
• DART thinks that TxDot and the state won't be friendly to public transportation until traffic gets so bad they won't have another choice
  • its frustrating because we should be investing in public transportation to PREVENT LA levels traffic, but it looks like our state leaders will sleep on the issue until we get that crippling traffic. Only then will finally (hopefully) take transit seriously
• Please vote

• DART had to overcome a bus operator shortage to restore frequency and reliability to their service
  • They were successful, roughly 7% of trips were being cancelled. Now its less than 1%
  • HOWEVER, this came at a monumental effort, lots of money spent recruiting, increasing pay, and bonuses
  • This is why DART has enough bus operators, but your local school district and other transit agencies do not. Other employers did not undergo this monumental recruiting effort
  • It cost a lot of $$$
  • As a result, one of the biggest barriers to the tier two bus network is expected to be hiring new bus operators.
    • Its a tough job market right now (for the employers)
• Police pay is now competitive, so they are expecting to be able to fill their police shortage
  • However it will still take a while, but they expect to be able to do it
  • Police pay was not competitive before (I assume before October, somewhere around there)
• In a few months, DART will start the pilot program that connects homeless riding the system to resources so they don't use DART as a shelter
  • Nonprofits will ride the trains to get homeless riders to shelters
• Route 23 is doing very well
  • That's why its getting a frequency promotion (duh)
• Route 241 is still doing very well
  • I think this should be a 15 minute all day route in tier two, but thats just me
    • I don't know of any other 200 series route that gets over 2000 riders per day, but I also don't have access to the latest data