Transportation & Roads

One of the key services of the City of Arlington is to maintain our roads and thoroughfares.  I've watched as various projects are approved from past council sessions, which go against common sense approaches to a growing population, with a growing need for better roads.  We can do better.  We can be wiser with the investments we make for our future, by being smarter with our choices for solutions to address our transportation demands.  (and we can stop wasting money on consulting fees from out-of-state firms, who do not know our turf better than we do.)  We need to discourage federal grant money that always comes with cumbersome and wasteful "strings" attached.  Arlington is one of the biggest cities without a rail transit system.  I'd like to think that it's because the people of Arlington are incredibly smart, having voted them down three times in past elections! There's not one rail system in the country running without a huge deficit.  Arlington isn't an "urban" city.  If we wanted "urban", we'd all be living in Fort Worth, Dallas, or New York City!  Let's stop trying to keep up with those places, because frankly... they're all going broke!