Dallas Public Transportation: An Intersection of Issues [by Madelyn Allen]
Channel: Jordan O. James
Date: 2022-05-13

My video project will be discussing the atrociousness of Dallas traffic and how ineffective (cost, safety, and time-wise) it has become, and I will pose some efficient solutions. To begin my argument, there are already published statistics on how many car crashes the Dallas region has and how they affect the flow of traffic. What I would also like to bring to the audience's attention is the amount of money that is spent on infrastructure - the creation of the highways, the maintenace of highways, and the expansion or widening of highways. If there is time and ample resources, I would also expand upon the towing industry and how much money is made from that. After showing the audience this information, I would like to introduce the concept of public transportation systems, mainly train systems, and how they would greatly improve every aspect of the Dallas commute. In doing this, I hope to convince the working people of Dallas and the people in office to work toward shifting our money to a more sustainable commuter system. Thankfully, I am not the first person to damand change in this area, as there are several articles and movements that target the injustices found in the public transportation systems that exist within the area; at least 17,000 families in Dallas do not have a car and depend on broken systems to get them to work and school. This, coupled with the established statistics of hundreds of crashes and the funneling of taxpayer dollars into a broken highway system, give me a lot of material to use for a well rounded presentation. All the information I found supported my original video concept, and I found out that there is a community rallying for the same exact things that I hope to see in my community.