Transportation News is Bad, But the Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

[white cloud]

Straws in the wind: 1) Rick Perry, toll czar of Texas, still pushing private highways; 2) DART a dismal failure; 3) North Texas Tollway Authority still run by the good old boys.

This could all be good. You know where we need to wind up with all this? A toll road from Dallas up to Lake Texoma would be a good thing, if the toll were about $75 one-way.

The complete failure of DART to provide a meaningful change in regional transit habits could be a good thing if it encourages Dallas to bail on DART, bail on regionalism and build an urban, heavy rail system downtown.

The all-cousin good-old-boy depleted-gene-pool regime at the NTTA could be good, if it hastens that agency's inevitable conversion into a small private fraternal secret handshake organization.

We need fewer roads, more congestion, taller buildings and more bicycles. It's probably already starting to happen.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/09/transportation_news_is_bad_but_1.php