Bus Stop Cheer

As Henderson, the surrounding historic districts, and houses in the conservation districts become more fashionable, what doesn’t change are the smiling faces at the bus stops that dot the area. Urbanists don’t consider Dallas to have inner city housing because the homes 10, 20, or 30 blocks from the Dallas Art Museum have front porches and tall backyard trees. Still, for the last forty years of rejuvenation, gentrification and renovation, the bus lines running straight from the downtown Dallas streets through the neighborhoods every few blocks have remained constant. Even when the City Council voted years ago to rezone 100 blocks of Old East Dallas to single family zoning as the economic foundation of its revitalization, the planners were able to keep Columbia zoned for new apartments so that historic homes could be torn down and new apartments added to increase bus ridership. I haven’t seen an increase in bus ridership. With the cost of Uber increasingly competing with the cost of a bus ticket, we can only anticipate less bus travel in the future. In the meantime, one of the joys of living in an older neighborhood, regardless of how many suburbanites fretted about gentrification, is the diverse strata of the economic means and lifestyles one sees on the streets of an urban neighborhood.
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