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Concrete: In the Bad-Air Mix

The "Vengeance" of the Trinity Pavers

Michael Morris, King of the Roads

Warning You Now: A Lot of Math Ahead

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

Dallas's Council Reps Send Very, Very Mixed Signals Over Int'l Inland Port

I'm working on a new theory of life. I used to think the City of Dallas was obviously the big cheese in the region -- the wheel -- and that all of the little surrounding municipalities were sort of cheese wedges. Maybe I had it wrong. Maybe Dallas has cheese for brains, and all of the communiti ... More >>

Foster's Brook, or: The Dallas County Judge is Smarter Than He Lets On

This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

BeloWatch

This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

All wet

This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

From the Unfair Park Educational Film Dept.

Comes this 11-minute film courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the North Texas Grease Abatement Council (band name alert!) concerning the proper disposal of fats, oils and grease. Highly recommended. Poor, poor Chad.

Big, honking white lies

Comes this 11-minute film courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the North Texas Grease Abatement Council (band name alert!) concerning the proper disposal of fats, oils and grease. Highly recommended. Poor, poor Chad.

Go Home, GOP|Money For Nothing|Corrections

Comes this 11-minute film courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the North Texas Grease Abatement Council (band name alert!) concerning the proper disposal of fats, oils and grease. Highly recommended. Poor, poor Chad.

Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development

What's Commish John Wiley Price's Real Beef With the Inland Port?

Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development

Sexy Town

Imagine a city with flowing creeks, walkable neighborhoods and greenery. No, not Seattle, dummy.

A Killer F5 Tornado Rips Through Dallas County -- How Ready Are We for this Nightmare Scenario?

Imagine a city with flowing creeks, walkable neighborhoods and greenery. No, not Seattle, dummy.

Sweet/Sour Grapes on Trinity Referendum Results

I'm either happy, sad or still churning out column inches on the Trinity, depending on how things turned out

Eye Candy

It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.

Richard Allen brings jobs to the black community.That makes him racist?

It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.

Fresh Eyes

Basically, it's Coats versus the Manchurian Candidate

Puppet Samba

By pulling strings, road hustlers can make the city council dance

Rouging the Corpse

Miller wants to pretty-up a stinker on the Trinity River deal

Idiot's Highway

That toll road they want for the Trinity is a loser

Cash for Trash

The city's new recycling center is up and running, sort of

From Ithaca, New York, An Apology to the Citizens of Dallas. And, An Explanation.

David YearsleyDuring the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you'll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than ... More >>

"Very Exciting Stuff" as Dallas and Fort Worth Apply for Federal Money for Streetcars

Courtesy Justin CozartIn 1945, Dallas city and transit officials, among them Mayor J. Woodall Rodgers, introduced "the first of twenty-five new, silent, streamlined street cars."Almost two months ago, the Dallas City Council's Transportation and Environmental Committee got a peek at the proposed ali ... More >>

So, That Dallas Streetcar Grant Application? It's Really the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Sorry.

Courtesy the Oak Cliff Transit AuthorityOne of the original streetcars that ran through Oak Cliff long, long agoJason Roberts -- a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member -- sends word that th ... More >>

Keep on Truckin'. Just Not in the Left Lane.

​For the last four years, the Texas Department of Transportation and the North Central Texas Council of Governments have been restricting big rigs from driving in the left lane along small sections of I-20 and I-30. And they're delighted with the results of the pilot program: Dan Kessler, NTCOG as ... More >>

City Receives Some Clean Cities Stimulus Money, But None For Economic Development

​On Friday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm informed Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council, via memo, that the city's getting around $3 million in Clean Cities stimulus money to, among other things, "enhance fueling infrastructure, retrofit city vehicles and assist in the provision of traini ... More >>

Before Belo Garden, Soil Remediation

Maybe you just forgot -- it's been a few years -- but there's supposed to be a Belo Garden downtown.​Said the city's own time line back in '07, the Belo Garden downtown should have been completed by ... let's see ... last month, matter of fact. And revised guesstimates last summer set the start da ... More >>

Can You Help Synthesize Strategies and ID Action Items for Downtown? Oh, Good.

Click to expand this time line of Dallas's master plans dating back to 1960, courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments​Back in April, the Dallas City Council gave Berkeley-based Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. $515,000 out of the Downtown Connection TIF District Project Budget to come ... More >>

Before Dallas Gets New Bike Plan, Bids Will Be Taken and Committees Will Be Formed

On a related note, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff yesterday announced the route for this weekend's Tweed Ride.​Good news for anybody who has ever avoided bicycling in Dallas for fear of the automobile: The city's new bicycle coordinator, who moved here from Virginia, is on your side. Says Max Kalhammer o ... More >>

When It Comes to the Trinity River Project, History Keeps Repeating Itself, Repeating Itself

John W. Carpenter Papers, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library,Ben Carpenter, son of John, is the one seen here pointing to a Trinity River canal master plan​Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting e ... More >>

Dallas' Former Bike Czar Tells Newbie Riders to Go Play in Traffic

John W. Carpenter Papers, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library,Ben Carpenter, son of John, is the one seen here pointing to a Trinity River canal master plan​Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting e ... More >>

We Interrupt Our Regular Broadcast for Schutze to Say Something Positive About the City

John W. Carpenter Papers, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library,Ben Carpenter, son of John, is the one seen here pointing to a Trinity River canal master plan​Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting e ... More >>

Downtown Dallas Streetcar Project Takes the TIGER By the Tail to Tune of $23 Million

One of the proposed alignments for streetcars through downtown Dallas. Here's the January City Hall briefing containing all the options.​Sooner than expected, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced the 51 projects across the country to receive Transportation Investment Generating Economi ... More >>

Want the Dallas County Commissioners in Charge of Toll Roads? Dickey Does.

​We've heard rumblings: Maurine Dickey ain't much of a fan of the North Central Texas Council of Governments. And here's our first bit of evidence: a memo Dickey sent to her fellow Dallas County Commissioners suggesting they consider forming the Dallas County Toll Road Authority to expedite the co ... More >>

NCTCOG, City Have Tapped Maryland Firm to Revamp Dallas Bike Plan

Danny Fulgencio​Speaking of the North Central Texas Council of Governments ...We've been waiting on this announcement since late November, when the NCTCOG and the city of Dallas put out the call for bidders interested in coming up with a new Dallas bike plan. And, lo and behold, there it is on the ... More >>

Some Questions Over How Useful Google Maps' New Bike Trails Feature Actually Is

​Bike Friendly Oak Cliff was the first locally to make mention yesterday of the fact Google Maps now offers bike trails -- that's the green line you see on the map at right. (Writes Jason Roberts, "It's a good way to see a birds-eye view of our trail system, and will hopefully help when plans deve ... More >>