North Texas Tollway Authority

The Rise of Dallas' New Pioneers

And the fall of everything Schutze wastes his time bitching about.

Good News About the Trinity Toll Road: Eventually, We All Die

At some point during last evening's North Texas Tollway Authority/Texas Department of Transportation Incredibly Boring Event, I realized I was having almost as much fun seeing all the same old pro-toll road partisans again as I was running into my fellow usual-suspect road-haters. These things have ... More >>

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 >>

"The Times Are A-Changin'": Hunt, Griggs Ask Pointed Questions About Trinity Toll Road

NCTCOG's Michael Morris​According to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Trinity Parkway will cost around $1.8 billion, give or take a few million. That money's not there. But, hey, what's the rush: As we mentioned this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' environmental impac ... More >>

Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense of Its Own Virtue

​Quite a bit of chest-puffing harrumphing holier-than-thou going on over at The Dallas Morning News editorial page today, with a self-congratulatory ditty about that dirty Rupert Murdoch, about those nasty dirty Brit tabloids and about how happy the News is with itself for being ... well ... y ... More >>

The John Wiley Price Investigation: Setting the Record Straight In More Ways Than One

​I need to correct an error and an omission. Yesterday I posted an item identifying the lawyer who defended Dallas County Judge Jim Foster from an intimidation attempt by Commissioner John Wiley Price as Ken Barr. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ken Barr is a former mayor of Fort Worth and member of the ... More >>

Converting Central's HOV Lanes to Managed Toll Lanes a "Possibility" Down the Road

​The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's meeting today, and top o' the agenda is the FY 2012 Budget and Twenty-Year Financial Plan, which factors into this news brief concerning Fitch's decision to downgrade DART's sales tax revenue bonds. Says the rating agency, the small dip from AA to AA- "reflec ... 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 >>

Hey, Mike Rawlings, Pick Up a Damn Paper, Will You?

Because in it, you'll find everything you need to say no to the Trinity River toll road.

What Remains of Project Pegasus, For Now: Two Bridges. Says Hunt, This is Leppert's "Disaster."

This is the Margaret McDermott signature bridge. And it's not part of TxDOT's plans to replace the I-30 bridge over the Trinity.​To follow up this morning's item on Project Pegasus, which has been all but left for dead on the side of the Mixmaster ...I spoke earlier today with Bill Hale, P.E., the ... More >>

Tom Leppert for Senate. Let's Talk About That.

​Dear Opposition Researchers working for U.S. Senate campaigns other than that of former-after-midnight Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert: Please contact me about the following things Leppert is going to say about himself in a campaign. First, he is going to say he led two successful referendum campai ... More >>

Wait a Sec. There's Something Wrong With the Levees? Somebody Tell Carolyn Davis ASAP!

Photo by Sam MertenThe six-headed Trinity monster (from left to right): Jill Jordan, Kelly High, Rebecca Rasor, Liz Fernandez, Col. R.J. Muraski and Kevin Craig​If little else, attending Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meetings is a constant reminder of the jaw-dropping ignorance of c ... More >>

Willis Johnson's Latest Piece of the Action

Sam MertenWe're trying to imagine how the conversation between Willis Johnson (right) and Ryan Evans (left) went as Johnson, one of the mayor's close advisers, lobbied Evans on behalf of his wife's company. ​Thanks to Mayor Tom Leppert's push for a lobbyist registration ordinance, we're now pr ... More >>

Mayor Tom Leppert Should Just Fess Up: The Trinity Toll Road Is Dead And Done

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 >>

Build America, Eff Yeah! U.S. Treasurer to Visit Convention Center Hotel Site Tomorrow.

Sam MertenNo, this is not the same picture we've run before. Merten's got a ton of them for his coffee-table book.​Took, oh, 'bout four months, but I see the city finally got around to posting The Official Convention Center Hotel Groundbreaking Video, which I've embedded after the jump. Good timin ... More >>

She Didn't Mind Paying the 60-Cent Toll. But the Extra Buck Made Her Call a Lawyer.

​Courthouse News brings us the interestingish case of Mary Kemp v. the Texas Department of Transportation over ... one dollar. Our story starts on November 4, 2007. The Wichita Falls resident was on State Highway 121 -- the Sam Rayburn -- and about to take the Denton Tap Road exit near Coppell whe ... More >>

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

Would somebody just tell Mayor Leppert? His Trinity River toll road doesn’t have a prayer.

At Some Point, Maybe, the Council Will Run Out of Trinity Parkway Alignments to Approve

Patrick MichelsToday's meeting of the Dallas City Council's Trinity River committee -- during which the committee endorsed this alignment for the proposed Trinity River toll road - was dull and uneventful in ways that were of keen interest to trained Kremlinologists. By observing which members of th ... More >>

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

Late to the Party, The News Somehow Emerges As Geniuses For Calling Out Mayor Leppert Regarding His Trinity Toll Road Promises

DMN transportation blogIf Michael Lindenberger could be any animal, he'd be one that lives on the beach "with opposable thumbs to drink libations." Just thought you'd like to know. The publishers of D Magazine and the Advocate this morning are extolling the greatness of Michael Lindenberger and The ... More >>

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 >>

Corps Warns that Trinity River Levees Pose a Flood Risk to Downtown, but is City Hall Listening?

Is the Army Corps of Engineers Having Second Thoughts About the Trinity River Project?

Angela Hunt Wants to Reevaluate the City's Toll Road Investment Because This is Cash We "May Be Dropping Down a Rabbit Hole."

Brian HarkinAngela Hunt isn't shocked about the funding issues with the Trinity Turnpike, especially since she knew about them before the vote in November 2007.After reading Friday's story in The Dallas Morning News regarding the nearly $1 billion funding gap for the Trinity Turnpike, Angela Hunt de ... More >>

Just Another Boring Trinity Story

You wanted sailboats on the Trinity River? You got sailboats on the Trinity River.It's the tale of two cities: In this Dallas Morning News story, today's closed-door meeting between staffs of the City of Dallas and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is all about irritating bureaucratic delays in the T ... More >>

Carolyn Davis Demands City Build New MLK Bridge, Makes Another Gaffe at Trinity Meeting

Brian HarkinDistrict 7 council member Carolyn Davis isn't doing herself any favors in a potential campaign face-off against DISD trustee Ron Price. Humor me for a minute. Imagine you're a city council member on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee. You walk into yesterday's meeting and Page ... More >>

Trinity Parkway Already Taking Its Toll

The Dallas City Council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee gets a briefing at 9:30 this morning on hurdles facing the Trinity River toll road project. They'll have people there from the North Texas Tollway Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. I really wish they had thought to ask ... More >>

In the Absence of a Trinity River Project, Fun and Fascinating Meetings

Toll Road Hard and Put Up Wet

What's $60 to $150 Million Among Friends?

What's the Rush, Mayor Tom? Hidin' Something?

Michael Morris, King of the Roads

Trinity Toll Road May Cost More Than Promised

Jim Needs The News' Help With a Little Fact-Checking

The "Vengeance" of the Trinity Pavers

When the Levees Break: Behind the Scenes of the Trinity Toll Road Campaigns

Behind the Trinity River Toll Road Scenes with Angela Hunt

Pumping the House Organ

Put Out

If Dallas doesn't give the boys their road, they want the jewelry back

Angela Hunt Sends Wick Allison a Note; Smelled a Little Like Vanilla Maybe?

Angela Hunt and Craig Holcomb: C'mon, Let's Hug It Out

Jim Cracks Open His Wickipedia Again

Hell, No, Blow, We Won't Vote Ever Again. For Anything. Because Democracy Sucks, Man!

Mary Suhm Earns Her Money

Burning Bridges

Puppet Samba

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

Idiot's Highway

That toll road they want for the Trinity is a loser

Bait and switch

The Trinity Project hits some expensive setbacks, but leave it to the News to look on the bright side