A way for DART to get the money it needs

DART is cutting back on his ambitious rail projects due to lack of funding, causing costernation in a number of places, especially Irving, which wants a DART line to the airport, and the Dallas City Council, which wants another line running through downtown, serving both the new convention center hotel and City Hall.

Today I drove west on LBJ from Greenville Avenue to I-35E. During that approximately 10-minute drive, I saw six cars in the HOV lane with only a single occupant and four others darting in and out of the HOV lane at randrom across the double white lines. If DART would be willing to put as much effort into collecting fines from HOV offenders as the North Texas Tollway Authority has in tracking tollbooth violators, the area's public transit group could fund rail lines rivaling the New York City subway system or the Paris Metro.