expressed optimism to NBC-5 on Wednesday about progress in DART negotiations<\/a>, said the funding solution, coupled with Dallas’ intent to surrender its majority on the DART board, is enough to stop a withdrawal election.<\/p>\n“This doesn\u2019t end the conversations that we have about ridership and efficiencies and data \u2013 and all these things,” Muns told the RTC. “But, we feel like under the scenario we\u2019ve talked about \u2013 and if the ILA (interlocal agreement with DART) can be executed by the 23rd, then we\u2019ll pull it off the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n
The RTC also approved an amendment to the original motion for DART financial support and added an additional $105 million for Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) and Trinity Metro in Tarrant County to advance regional rail mobility initiatives.<\/p>\n
Lee said DART will work over the next ten days to finalize the agreement with member cities.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s nobody who wants to improve services more than DART. We will endeavor to do that,” Lee said.<\/p>\n
“And if we can do that in partnership with the cities and cities are working with us in good faith, we think that can be accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irving City Council member Dennis Webb read a statement from the city manager to the RTC, which indicated Irving would also move to call off its withdrawal election at its next city council meeting on February 26.<\/p>\n
Farmers Branch, Addison, University Park and Highland Park also placed a withdrawal election on the May ballot. <\/p>\n
Addison Mayor Bruce Arfsten said he will ask his city council to recall its scheduled election as well, according to our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders in Plano and Irving, the two largest DART member cities that have called elections to withdraw from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8872,5471,1266,160,162,161,840],"class_list":["post-162606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-addison","tag-farmers-branch","tag-irving","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}