{"id":30004,"date":"2018-05-28T02:17:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30004"},"modified":"2018-05-28T02:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T02:17:02","slug":"why-not-run-the-rail-line-a-little-farther-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30004","title":{"rendered":"Why not run the rail line a little farther north?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dart_blueline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30005\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dart_blueline-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dart_blueline-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dart_blueline-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dart_blueline.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I were more of a political activist, I might be inclined to raise a little ruckus in my new community of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Fairview, Texas, is a nice town in Collin County, just north of Dallas County, which is where Big D is located.<\/p>\n<p>The issue at hand? Why not run the light rail service that shoots north from Dallas to Fairview?<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Area Rapid Transit is a successful mass transit system that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. We&#8217;ve ridden DART from Plano south to the Dallas County Fairgrounds. It&#8217;s a nice ride, believe me.<\/p>\n<p>I now live just a few blocks east of where the rail line ought to run, along U.S. Highway 75. Except that it doesn&#8217;t come this far north.<\/p>\n<p>Were they to run the line just a little farther north from Plano, past Allen, through Fairview and into McKinney, I would use the train. I would be its most vocal champion. I would take up the cudgel for mass transit rail ridership.<\/p>\n<p>My hometown of Portland, Ore., is arguably the unofficial &#8220;mass transit capital of the United States.&#8221; Its bus system is second to none; it runs a light-rail system that carries passengers into the city from miles beyond the city limits.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t yet know whether they plan to extend DART service eventually farther into Collin County. I&#8217;ll have to study up on it, sniff around, ask some questions.<\/p>\n<p>Fairview Town Hall is just around the corner from where we live these days.<\/p>\n<p>What the heck &#8230; I believe I am going to stick my head in the door and ask to speak to the city manager\/administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, why not try to rustle up some interest in a proven method of moving people from place to place?<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were more of a political activist, I might be inclined to raise a little ruckus in my new community of residence. Fairview, Texas, is a nice town in Collin County, just north of Dallas County, which is where Big D is located. The issue at hand? Why not run the light rail service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why not run the rail line a little farther north?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1063,1239,7794,2949,3671],"class_list":["post-30004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas","tag-dart","tag-mass-transit","tag-portland-or"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30006,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions\/30006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}