{"id":1406117,"date":"2025-04-19T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1406117"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:42:50","slug":"north-texas-transit-leaders-want-new-vision-for-regional-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1406117","title":{"rendered":"North Texas transit leaders want ‘new vision’ for regional transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS – KERA<\/a> reports that North Texas transportation leaders want to restructure transit in the region to solve a dispute with some cities dissatisfied with the system. The Regional Transportation Council voted last week to push for legislation that would see the organization spending the next two years working on a \u201cnew transit vision,\u201d said transit director Michael Morris. \u201cI think we need a whole different transportation authority way to deliver transit in the region,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the DART cities are paying more than their fair share for transit. I think there\u2019s lots of communities that aren\u2019t paying any share to transit.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes as a handful of member cities are pushing for state legislation that would cut funding for Dallas Area Rapid Transit by 25%. Two bills would direct a portion of tax contributions to the agency into a general mobility program cities could use for other transit projects. “I think there needs to be legislative change,\u201d Morris said. \u201cI happen to think it\u2019s not the legislation that was introduced.\u201d He suggested gathering the three regional transportation authorities \u2013 DART, Trinity Metro and Denton County Transportation Authority \u2013 as well as cities, the RTC and the state to file legislation directing the RTC to come up with a new approach to regional transportation ahead of the next legislative session. \u201cThe legislature would be instructing the Regional Transportation Council to pull together over the next two years a new vision to deliver transit,\u201d he said. The council also voted to continue mediation between DART and some of its member cities, despite some leaders saying the talks had reached an impasse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DALLAS – KERA reports that North Texas transportation leaders want to restructure transit in the region to solve a dispute with some cities dissatisfied with the system. The Regional Transportation Council voted last week to push for legislation that would see the organization spending the next two years working on a \u201cnew transit vision,\u201d said … Continue reading North Texas transit leaders want ‘new vision’ for regional transportation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 09:38:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406118,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406117\/revisions\/1406118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}