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It says on page 93:
The Tom Leppert Living Memorial Subway line will have surface stations in the precise locations of the homes of Sam Merten and Jim Shutze.

I am also gonna enjoy riding the Northwest Highway stripclub connector line!

(Obviously, I am full of crap on this, put I will be looking real close at this puppy in the next few hours.)

Don't bother -- they do all these meetings just for show.

Bus service to my neighborhood was cut in half after the meeting where they said nothing would change.

All of these guys -- DART, City, Highway -- are required to have these meetings where they basically just tell you what they intend to do and if you disagree, they don't even write it down.

Jaundiced -- yes, a bit, but I have sat through too many of these "for show" deals.

Tragic, but true.

These meetings are more about the process than the progress.

Even when I worked at DART in the early 90s, the real decisions were made BEFORE the Public meetings.... and usually to the detriment of the Bus Service, and the Suburban cities.

Think of these meetings as an exercise in Mental Masturbation... but in this case, the ones getting "jacked around" are the Tax Payers, and the users of the DART system.

Uptown is curiously missing from that map even though every other neighborhood is clearly denoted...

DART forgot the Deep Ellum memorial trolley line...I mean the eastern "west village" line. It'll pass right by the Starbucks that used to be the Gypsy Tea Room. (see how clever they are..."tea room"...coffee???...get it??? Gosh city planners are smart).

i have nothing sarcastic to say, because i am very green about Dart issues....

but have any of the people who plan DART traveled to New York or London to see how real, usable train systems are built? i was shocked that the 30 year plan didn't include a train stop at Knox/Henderson, a major retail area with terrible parking.

Does it say anywhere... "Pick you price... then double it!"?

Actually, DART DID want to put a station at the Knox-Henderson site, but the neighborhood fought that back in the late 80s, early 90s meetings.

DART did, however, dig out the spot below that intersection....allowing for finish out of that location in the future, if financing is available.

This time, the neighborhood activists THEN are to blame, not DART.

Let me say that as a resident and frequent neighborhood association meeting-goer, a few self-appointed 'leaders' took it upon themselves to oppose a DART stop. I lived in Cochran Heights for 8 years and a vote was never taken. I'm not sure about Vickery Place but I think it was the same situation. The DART station at Knox-Henderson should be finished out..