Mobility issues.

Life is mobility.

A city is a living organism. It breathes. It has a heart that pumps its life-blood through arteries, veins, and capillaries, providing the necessary elements that sustain its life. This life-sustaining flow is a city’s Mobility.

When Mobility in a city is cut off, choked, congested, or strangled, parts of the city will atrophy and die. For the healthy life of a city, both economically and physically, people and goods must be able to move about freely, without blockage or unnecessary barriers.

Dallas is a city that owes its very existence to the trade and migration routes that Native Americans and early Settlers used to cross the Trinity River, less than a mile from the current location of Dallas City Hall.

Dallas is a city whose future existence depends upon highways, thoroughfares, streets, pedestrian-ways, trails, freight and passenger rail lines, light rail, and air routes.

Dallas is a city whose history and destiny are organically intertwined with the issue of Mobility, even more so as our growth changes from horizontal low density development to vertical, higher-density development. For Dallas to be a city on the move, Dallas needs the freedom of mobility.

Freedom of movement is a necessity for all users of our transportation system: for automobiles, for trucks, for public transit, for bicyclists, and for the one mode that all mode users share in common, pedestrians.