DALLAS — Mass transit in North Texas faces a mutiny.

Four of the 13 cities that make up Dallas Area Rapid Transit want to walk away, and they’ll let their voters make the decision next May.

In our latest episode of Y’all-itics , we asked the agency’s CEO how DART got itself into this situation.

“The sales taxes collected in suburbs collectively is more than 50% of the sales taxes that we collect. And previously, the city of Dallas alone, um, contributed, or at least we collected the sales taxes that were, collected more than 50% of the sales taxes in terms of the total pot,” Nadine Lee answered. “I think as a result of that cities, the suburban cities, are saying, hey, wait a second, you know, we get less service than the city of Dallas, why are we paying so much money into the DAR

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