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The Council Nearly Killed the Oak Cliff Streetcar, Then They Realized They Can’t
The modern streetcar remains a strain on the city s budget, but it won t become sustainable until the network expands beyond Oak Cliff
By Peter Simek
Published in
FrontBurner
February 24, 2021
9:00 am
For the first hour or so of Tuesday’s meeting of the Dallas City Council’s Transportation Committee, council members listened as the region’s top transportation official and the assistant city manager who oversees transportation discussed the need for a more integrated approach to long-range planning.
They proposed an approach to transportation planning that allowed for other city investments and services – like improved traffic signals, reconstituted streetscapes, and expanded access to high-speed internet – to be incrementally built into the system. The idea was to design each transportation project not as a single, standalone investment, but as a component of a broader network of it