At 400,000 residents strong, North Texas’s third-largest city has “no trains, no scheduled buses, and no guarantee that the region's on-demand microtransit service will be there when you need it.”
Ever wonder just how big a city can get without a fixed-route transit system? So has YouTuber Classy Whale, who recently visited Arlington, Texas — the largest city in the United States without a public transit system — to find out. Streetsblog USA published Classy Whale’s video account of the journey, including some touch-and-go runs on the city’s app-based microtransit (ie. vans run by a New York-based software company), “and an epic quest to eat some Ethiopian-Texan barbecue" all in one.
FULL STORY: Friday Video: The Largest U.S. City With No Transit
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