Dallas City Hall must end fight with DART, claim its $90 million | Opinion
A DART train arrives at the West End Station in downtown Dallas on Friday, March 18, 2022.When we last wrote about Dallas City Hall’s fight with Dallas Area Rapid Transit in March, things looked dire.
Dallas demanded that DART turn over $111 million in excess tax revenue that the transit agency had promised. But DART withheld the money to press City Hall to stop delaying its Silver Line rail project. Nadine Lee, CEO of the transit agency, complained that some problems with design review and permitting wouldn’t get resolved unless DART escalated the matter to City Manager T.C. Broadnax.
After months of mediation with DART, city staff members have come back with a good deal, and the Dallas City Council should approve it.— a loss of $21 million vs. the original $80 million that DART had threatened to keep to make up for construction document review delays and additions to the Silver Line project.
To get the extra sales tax revenue, Dallas must sign an interlocal agreement with DART that stipulates the city will remain in “good standing.” Dallas is the only holdout among the transit agency’s 13 member cities, most of which had either signed the agreement or at least approved it by early March.
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