Event at the Rangers Ballpark? Massive traffic jams. Big day at Six Flags? Massive traffic jams. Even a minor accident on any of the major highways through there, like I-30? Massive traffic jams. The Cowboys stadium, given their much larger popularity and ridiculously out-of-scale new stadium + its massive parking lots, will bring the city to its knees. The city’s solution was to get I-30 to undergo a huge, ridiculous widening – so they’ll be really upset when it turns out that all that does is make the traffic jams even more insane than they would have been otherwise.

And Arlington always turns down transit of any sort, as mentioned in the article. “We don’t want those types” is something that is heard *constantly* in stories about the latest failed bid to do anything, even bus service. The city’s only tentative embrace of transit has been a minor pilot program with Fort Worth’s agency, The T, for some park & ride buses between a parking lot in Arlington and Downtown Fort Worth.

That’s actually a big problem for Fort Worth – The T barely has enough money to fund the mediocre bus service it runs here. Unlike DART, which has gotten several neighboring cities to Dallas to join the agency and contribute funding, The T only has Fort Worth and suburb Richland Hills. The other area cities contribute their small percentage of sales tax that they could use to join The T to other efforts like getting strip malls built with tax breaks, so The T’s stuck in this sort of unchanging swamp of mediocrity. They’re working on trying to get a second commuter rail line going, the Southwest-to-Northeast line, and several cities that the line passes through either don’t want to join or only want to contract for a rail station rather than become full members.

It’s telling that the planned Fort Worth modern streetcar system basically has nothing at all to do with The T.