>>1963378Dallas and Vancouver both have light rail transit.
DART: 147 km, 14.5 million annual ridership
SkyTrain: 80 km, 116 million annual ridership.
Dallas already has (almost) twice as many miles of light rail as Vancouver. But Vancouver has ten times more riders. Why? The answer is density. The second two paragraphs here describe this dynamic, to which no one has had an answer:
>>1963175In Vancouver, more people are packed closer to transit stops. And transit from that stop is more likely to take you to a useful location in a reasonable amount of time. In the Dallas area, despite having twice as much rail alone as Vancouver, people are further from stops, and there are fewer things accessible by stops on the line. Despite DART having existed for decades, the urban landscape of Dallas has not radically shifted into a dense, European-style layout.
