Leaders at Dallas Area Rapid Transit are hoping to avoid losing future funding with a new program that raises questions of cities withdrawing from the agency.
The DART board on Tuesday approved sending an agreement to seven member cities – Addison, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Plano, Richardson, University Park, and the town of Highland Park – that would distribute money back to them as part of the agency’s new General Mobility Program, or GMP.
“This is a way for us to incentivize the cities to work together and solution-build, and also recapture some of the money, because that would be a big hit to us if there was a reduction or redirection of the penny,” said Kay Shelton, chief of staff and strategy with DART…