Cities Rushing to Join Mass Transit System.

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Once ridiculed as a waste of money that would never work in a car-crazy town, the success of light rail trains in Dallas is now leading more than a dozen surrounding cities to ask the once-scorned Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency (DART) to serve their residents. Formerly faced with keeping member cities from fleeing, DART now faces the equally difficult task of figuring out how to accept new members. DART has developed a tentative proposal to extend commuter rail service more easily to nonmember cities, which could improve the region's worsening traffic snarls. DART officials agree that the agency should not accept new members unless they can set...