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A Better Way on the Trinity Highway

Let's build a road on the river, not a wall.

A Texas Lawmaker Wants Every New or Redone Street in the State to Be "Complete"

In November, Mayor Mike Rawlings took a stroll down Bishop Avenue to inaugurate its status as a complete street, the term of art for roadways designed as much to welcome pedestrians, cyclists and small-scale retail as to accommodate cars. It was a consummation of sorts of the city's prolonged flirta ... More >>

Why Does Mexico's Flag Resemble Italy's?

It's Alive: Council to Get Trinity Corridor Transpo Update, Including That Dang Toll Road

​Speaking of transportation projects across and around the Trinity River ...Saturday's hike-n-bike installation perched atop the Cedar Crest Bridge is one of myriad items about which the city council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will hear this afternoon, following its field trip to a ... More >>

Before LBJ Express Begins Real Construction, Already a Proposed Change Is Needed

Sinking those managed toll lanes beneath the toll road clearly ain't gonna work.​Speaking of the LBJ Express ...Andy Rittler, spokesman for LBJ Infrastructure Group LLC, the developer of the LBJ do-over that will involve sinking managed toll lanes beneath 635, sends word of a public meeting tomorr ... More >>

Tom Leppert on the Trinity River Toll Road, Again Slicing the Truth with a Razor Blade

​I'm doing an informal poll. Is there anyone left out there who gives a rat's ass what former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert did or did not say about the safety of the Trinity River toll road project? Wait. Wait. I'm looking. I've got my binoculars on. A-ha! I do spy at least one rat's ass out there ... More >>

Council Due to Hop on Complete Streets for a Bike Plan Ride to a Better Block This Afternoon

Danny Hurley​Patrick's liveblogging this afternoon's meeting of the council's Transportation and Environment Committee, whose agenda reads like an Unfair Park greatest-hits: City of Dallas Complete Streets Initiative Update, 2011 Dallas Bike Plan and The Better Block Project. You might wanna peru ... More >>

Kids Do Want to Ride Their Bikes to School. But Bike Racks and Safe Streets Would Help.

​Bike-riding the few blocks to F.P. Caillet Elementary back in the day was certainly no big deal -- it certainly wasn't revolutionary, it certainly wasn't news. It's how we got to school. Flash-forward three decades, and our neighborhood -- same one in which I grew up -- stages a Bike to School Da ... More >>

Transpo Report Says 34 Percent of Dallas, Fort Worth Roads Are "Poor." Could Be Worse?

​Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who forwarded along this just-released report from TRIP, a D.C.-based transportation research group: Hold the Wheel Steady: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother. Says the study, which paints a grim picture of the bumpy road ah ... More >>

Mayor Leppert Won't Say What Other Federal Agencies He Lashed Out Against Last Week; Suhm Calls Criticism "Not Very Harsh"

Sam MertenMayor Leppert giving his State of the City address last week.​As we mentioned last week, Mayor Tom Leppert spiced up his State of the City address with, among other things, some harsh comments directed toward the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only did he claim the corps is "not a ... More >>

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson: The Latest In A Long Line Of Pols To Dance To The Mayor's Tune For The Trinity River Project.

The Trinity River Toll Road Exemptions

​Several Friends of Unfair Park are wondering this morning when Jim's going to weigh in on the news that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison added to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 two exemptions that will make it easier for the city to build the Trinity River toll road between the levees, no mat ... More >>

TxDOT Dazzles Southern Dallas With Plans to Straighten Out "Statistically Dangerous Curve" on S.M. Wright

Photos by Daniel RodrigueDead Man's Curve, or as TxDOT likes to call it, the "accident-prone curve" or "statistically dangerous curve." ​As planners and staff from the Texas Department of Transportation and city of Dallas overwhelmed residents last night with maps spanning the length of three ... More >>

Top 10 Schutze Columns of '09

​I know what you're thinking: The year is almost over, and I need more Schutze! More Schutze you say? Me too, which is why I took a look back at his columns from '09 and picked my 10 faves for your reconsideration and, well, appreciation. For those who don't remember the drill from last yea ... More >>

Why the Trinity River Project Could Be a Windfall for the Lawyer Who Sues the Army Corps of Engineers

Mayor Tom Leppert May Run for Senate? What, and Miss All The Fun?

The Easy Answer to the Trinity River's Levee Problems? Just Blame Katrina.

Sam MertenKevin Craig of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wasn't given a chance to speak when Mayor Leppert and other politicos announced a two-year, $29 million levee study.After Mayor Tom Leppert announced the need to pony up $29 million to study Dallas's levees resulting from "unacceptable" ratings ... More >>

Mo Money Mo Problems: Leppert's Got Some "Good News" for the Council About Trinity

Sam Merten In February, Mayor Tom Leppert and Kevin Craig of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- and tomorrow, they're holding a repeat performance Earlier tonight, a few of us local media members found in our respective in-boxes a draft of remarks Mayor Tom Leppert is expected to deliver Mo ... More >>

Trinity Toll Road Isn't a White Deal. It's a Bad Deal.

Nyah, Nyah, Nyah: We Told You the Trinity Project Wouldn't Work

The News Must Have Amnesia Regarding Mayor Leppert and the Toll Road. And Just What The Heck Does "At Risk" Really Mean?

Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert with DMN writer Michael Lindenberger (right) ... we think.To my delight, I returned from vacation and discovered that the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Trinity Turnpike has finally been released. It would have been a nice read on the plan ... More >>

Really, About the Trinity Parkway, Don't Hold Your Breath. Not Yet, Anyway.

Rethinking Pink

Greasing the Wheels

How Texas Motor Speedway got Denton County to pay for a freeway exit to nowhere—except, that is, to the speedway

Highway roulette

In Texas, more people die in truck crashes than any state in the country. It's not an accident.