Dallas' support for DART's full funding is good, but the city never should have started this conversation in the first place.
A DART passenger steps off a bus at the Downtown Irving/Heritage Crossing Station, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Irving, Texas.earlier this year, discontent with the transit agency and a desire for change were hardly new. Suburban leaders who support reducing DART’s sales tax funding had been having discussions about clawing money back from the transit agency for years.
as part of its legislative agenda. But the council is acting as if it wasn’t the spark on dry tinder.Dallas’ leadership on the question of DART’s future has been weak at best, and when it has led at all,Since it was founded in 1983, DART has been primarily funded through a 1% sales tax on every dollar spent in the 13 member cities. That collection totaled about $834 million in fiscal year 2023. The largest share of that came from Dallas – a little over $400 million.
According to an EY study completed earlier this year, in fiscal year 2023, Dallas contributed $407.8 million in sales tax dollars to DART. But the cost of providing service in the city was $690.2 million. That means Dallas got nearly a 70% return on its investment — or about $282 million worth of service that it didn’t pay for.
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