Subject: Morgan Lyons

• Bridge to Be Abridged

  August 23, 2006

• Falling Down, Falling Down

  August 11, 2006

• When You Think "Deep Ellum," Naturally You're Gonna Look to Canada. D'uh.

  May 30, 2007

• It Pays to Be DART Board Chair

  January 23, 2008

• Dodging Raindrops at DART

  March 10, 2008

• Clang, Clang, Clang Goes the Downtown Trolley, Just Maybe?

  May 21, 2008

• You Know DART's New Green Line? Well, Um, You Go First.

  June 20, 2008

• From Outside Dallas, A Campaign Against Family Place's Ad Campaign

  October 29, 2008

• Get Rail: DART President to Testify Before U.S. Senate Tomorrow Concerning "New Starts"

  DART president Gary ThomasTomorrow, Dallas Area Rapid Transit president and exec director Gary Thomas will be in Washington, D.C., to talk -- what else? -- transportation. Specifically, he's been invited to appear before a U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee, chaired by Chris Dodd, to address the Federal Transit Administration's so-called New Starts program, which is how DART partially funded the $1.8-billion Green Line expansion scheduled to get rolling come fall. And by

  June 2, 2009

• Dallas Area Rapid Transit Points to Green Line as Proof That Infrastructure Is Stimulating

  Dallas Area Rapid TransitThe under-construction Fair Park station, part of the new Green Line expansion scheduled to open in SeptemberDallas Area Rapid Transit today issued a media release that says the 28-mile, $1.8 billion Green Line expansion, scheduled to open in September, "is proving to be the Dallas region's own local economic stimulus program with the creation of more than 2,200 jobs." When contacted by Unfair Park today, DART spokesman Morgan Lyons said that number comes solely from con

  February 5, 2009

• Because, Look, Sometimes There's Just Too Much Sideboob For the Side of a DART Bus

  DART opted not to run this ad, which you can click to enlarge. The ad, I mean. Wha?Saw a "story" in the no-relation New York Observer this morning concerning the "yanking" of a "racy" movie ad from the side of Dallas Area Rapid Transit buses, and I thought it might be a good idea to ask DART spokesman Morgan Lyons the ol' what-the-what. Dutifully, he researched the back story and returned with the full story: No, sorry, the ads for the movie The Last International Playboy weren't pulled, he says

  June 4, 2009

• Buzz

  August 26, 1999

• Low-Bid to No-Bid

  Don't have a clue how DART could bust its budget by a billion bucks? Here's one.

  August 14, 2008

• Stuck by DART

  Someday, DART might boost Fair Park business, but for now...

  July 31, 2008

• Fluid Victory

  DART acts as though it is accountable to no man. Especially my man Betz.

  June 26, 2008

• Hardballs

  DART comes up a billion bucks short, no worries. DART gets sued by a taxpayer for $5,000, watch the lawyers fly.

  June 12, 2008

• Oh, Canada

  Great white Deep Ellum

  June 7, 2007

• A Bridge Too Low

  In East Dallas, truckers have a new kind of trap to worry about

  June 22, 2006

• Help, It's the Police!

  Someone's lying in the latest DART cop beat-down. Can you tell us who?

  April 20, 2006

• Bus Gestapo

  DART cops put a guy in jail 11 days for jaywalking

  December 8, 2005

• Good-Latimer Golly

  A tunnel crumbles and a record store escapes the wreckage

  November 17, 2005

• DART Guns

  Transit agency kisses off gunplay story

  July 8, 2004

• Fallout

  DART removes ads for a charity accused of links to terrorists

  October 11, 2001

• Warrior Reporter

  Channel 4's Becky Oliver is queen of ambush journalism, wielding her microphone like a sword. Sure it's cheap and sensational. It's also a lot harder than it looks.

  June 28, 2001

• DART Launches "Where's My Bus?" to Make Riding "Less Intimidating." And, Less Sweaty.

  Morgan Lyons at Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today of a new cell-phone "customer service tool": the "Where's My Bus?®" app, which allows bus-riders to track their rides to and fro with "a near-real time estimate." Lyons tells Unfair Park it was an in-house creation -- "so we're pretty proud of that" -- that'll allow folks to steer clear of their bus stops till just before it's pick-up-thirty."On one of our typical 104-degree July days, I'd like to wait in the air-conditioning as long as

  July 6, 2009

• It's a Dog's Life, DART Cops Claim in Federal Lawsuit Over Alleged Overtime Violations

  After the jump you'll find a lawsuit filed earlier this week in Dallas federal court in which three Dallas Area Rapid Transit cops are suing the agency over overtime pay they claim they're owed. But Derek Johnson, Ronald Lindsay and Tracy Vice (one of the best cop names ever) aren't just claiming they worked long, hard hours on the beat: The threesome are officers in DART's K-9 unit, which dates back to '07, and far as the officers concerned, having to take care of their doggies is hard work for

  July 24, 2009

• Dallas Area Rapid Transit Is Clearly Gearing Up for Its Very Own Video Festival

  Brad Oldham talks Traveling Man in a DART video.​In recent days, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's been awfully busy posting videos to its YouTube page -- most of 'em having to do with the Green Line, which is scheduled to open September 14. I've put four of them after the jump: Two feature interviews with Brad Oldham and Reel FX's Brandon Oldenburg, who are, at this very moment, installing their Traveling Man sculpture series in Deep Ellum. You'll also find a two-parter in which DART gives the Fair

  July 29, 2009

• Lord, He Was Born a Traveling Man

  ​Ah, good ol' Morgan Lyons over at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. He noticed that we'd posted a few of the agency's very well-done in-house videos and very kindly sent over the very latest: this time-lapse featuring the construction of the Traveling Man sculptures Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg are building for DART Deep Ellum. Well played, Mr. Lyons. And, again, very well done. Jump for it.

  July 29, 2009

• Walking Tall on a Green Line Test Drive

  Patrick MichelsA DART official strolls past one of the "Traveling Man" sculptures across from the Green Line's new Deep Ellum Station Tuesday morning. Tomorrow, Unfair Park will feature a video from today's sneek peak.​Check out more photos from the Green Line tour in this photo set.With less than two weeks until Green Line trains haul their first paying passengers, DART's kicked its countdown into high gear this week, making scheduled runs along three new miles of track runs from Fair Park to

  September 1, 2009

• Counting DART's Light Rail in Heavy Traffic Leads to One Inescapable Conclusion: Downtown Gridlock

  October 8, 2009

• DART's Still Sorry for Saturday's Snafu

  Flickr user: clockwerks​Many Friends of Unfair Park have sent word that they too missed kick-off of Texas-OU Saturday due to Dallas Area Rapid Transit's slow ride to Fair Park; DART spokesman Morgan Lyons spent most of his weekend apologizing and explaining ... and then explaining his apology. (Flickr user "Rayindallas" was there when the back-up occurred in downtown; our man Justin Terveen has a photo essay of the "clusterfuck" -- his word -- forthcoming.) Now comes DART's "Special Message to

  October 19, 2009

• Hey Mayor Leppert: Want Ethics Reform To Have Some Real Teeth? Take Away the Power of the Table.

  November 19, 2009