The Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington University School of Business and SmartGrowth America launched a report stating that Dallas lacks trails for transients to transit. The city occupied a ranking of 25th out of 30 big cities in an article called Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking Walkable Urbanism in America’s Largest Metros. According to this report, Dallas has a big potential undeveloped caused, in part, to the slow expansion of DART's light-rail…

Since 1999, The University of North Texas and DART (Light Rail Transit) came together to move millions of people. This partnership benefited the economic growth of businesses near light rail stations. In this article is stated that property values near DART LRT stations grow much faster economically speaking than areas where a light rail station is not available, these public projects are within a quarter-mile of DART stations.

The region taken by the researchers of the University of…