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ByDallas Morning News Editorial
DART has made it clear through repeated service failures that it is not meeting the needs of Dallas. But the deeper problem is that the Dallas City Council has allowed this to continue with minimal oversight, accountability and engagement with the people who rely on these routes every day.
If the city intends to keep DART as its transit provider, then the council must stop operating on the sidelines and start asserting real authority. That means demanding transparency, enforcing performance standards and refusing to let service cuts happen behind closed doors.
The Inwood Road route — a key route connecting Oak Cliff to far North Dallas — was eliminated by DART without any notice to the public. This created significant challenges for many residents who depended on public transportation. The changes were made without input from the City Council or residents. Such limited notice left many people without time to make alternative arrangements for essential travel. For workers who rely on DART buses to commute, this change has caused considerable inconvenience and hardship. Many now face longer travel times, additional transfers or limited access to reliable transportation to and from their jobs. Others have been forced to rely on ride-share services, if they can even afford them.
Affordable, reliable transportation is a core public service, and the City Council cannot keep treating it like an afterthought. Public transportation is meant to serve the public.
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Delia Crossley, Dallas
The recent revelations contained in the Epstein files have left me, like so many others, shaken to my core. The magnitude of the abuse, the power that shielded it and the sheer number of individuals who looked away demand more than outrage. They demand soul-searching.
In a well-known hadith, the Prophet Muhammad tells of a man so crushed by guilt over his sins that he begged his sons to cremate him after death, grind his remains to powder and scatter the ashes across the sea. He believed that if he could make himself disappear completely, God would not be able to judge him. He believed he could outrun God. He could not.
God gathered every particle and reassembled him whole. God then asked why he had tried to flee, and the man answered simply: I was afraid of You. God, seeing that fear, forgave him.
For those who enabled the abuse of children and then arranged their own silence: The ashes do not stay scattered. They never do. History has a long memory. So does God.
