{"id":63697,"date":"2025-11-25T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:51:43","slug":"yet-another-dart-member-city-is-considering-backing-out-of-its-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63697\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another DART member city is considering backing out of its partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Addison joins several North Texas cities in putting its partnership with the public transit agency into question.<\/p>\n

ADDISON, Texas \u2014 Addison could be the latest North Texas city\u00a0<\/a>to put the future of its partnership with Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) in voters’ hands.<\/p>\n

An agenda item for Addison’s Dec. 2 City Council meeting, if passed, would let voters decide whether they want city sales tax revenue to continue going toward the public transportation service in the May election.<\/p>\n

According to the agenda item, Addison, which has been a DART member city since the agency was founded in 1983, has contributed over $400.5 million through its one-cent sales and use tax. For the 2025 fiscal year, the City contributed $17.6 million.<\/p>\n

If council members approve the ordinance, Addison would be the fifth DART member city to put the issue on the May ballot, joining Farmers Branch, Irving<\/a>, Highland Park and Plano. There are just 13 member cities that help fund DART.<\/p>\n

If voters in all five cities elect to terminate their cities’ partnerships with DART, it could prove catastrophic for the transit agency, especially for the newly opened Silver Line<\/a>, which runs through Addison and Plano to DFW Airport.<\/p>\n

The Addison City Council is scheduled to discuss the ordinance on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addison joins several North Texas cities in putting its partnership with the public transit agency into question. ADDISON,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-63697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63697","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=63697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}