[Doady]

San Francisco also has a suburban rail system with BART. But the difference with San Francisco is it also has a highly-developed bus and streetcar network for short trips.

A city of the size of Dallas should have a system designed for both long distance and short distance. But with so few resources, they have probably should focused those limited resources on one type of service instead of dividing them. In trying to serve both long distances and short distances, the system does neither well.