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March 2, 2012
If Amtrak and TxDOT Can Swing It, You'll Be Able to Take Train From Dallas to Shreveport
Saw that AP piece this morning about how Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation are looking at connecting Dallas-Fort Worth to Shreveport-Bossier City, which would involve inserting a stop at the Trinity Railway Express's CentrePort/DFW Airport station. But the piece isn't clear: Shoul ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Train Museum CEO Says Rolling Stock Will Leave Fair Park For Frisco in Late April
Via.LaPrelle says the Big Boy's move in April has prompted calls from all over the world.Got a call this morning from Bob LaPrelle, president and CEO of the Museum of the American Railroad, which, as you're well aware by now, is due to roll out of Fair Park to its new digs in Frisco. I'd left him ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Read TxDOT's Rationale For Need For High Speed Rail Between Houston, DFW (Or ... Not?)
Click to enlarge potential routes for high-speed rail routes between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.On Tuesday we noted that the Texas Department of Transportation is looking for a firm to ID would-be routes for a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, using $15 million in Fed ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
With $15 Mil From Feds, TxDOT Is Seeking Bids for Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail Study
It's been quite some time since last we discussed the long-proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, which Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at the Texas Department of Transportation, called in April "definitely a priority" for TxDOT. This morning, s ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Choo-Choo Goes Boo
It's been quite some time since last we discussed the long-proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, which Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at the Texas Department of Transportation, called in April "definitely a priority" for TxDOT. This morning, s ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Transportation News is Bad, But the Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Straws in the wind: 1) Rick Perry, toll czar of Texas, still pushing private highways; 2) DART a dismal failure; 3) North Texas Tollway Authority still run by the good old boys. This could all be good. You know where we need to wind up with all this? A toll road from Dallas up to Lake Texoma ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Feds Roll Out $15 Million to Begin Studying Feasibility of DFW-to-Houston High-Speed Rail
About a month back we looked at docs the Texas Department of Transportation submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration in the hopes of landing some federal money dough for that loooooong-discussed Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Houston high-speed rail line. Long story short: The state wanted $18 mill ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
What's Wrong with DART? The Suburbs.
No, no, no -- not that same old crap again about how we need to get more suburbs to join Dallas Area Rapid Transit, our regional rail system. The suburbs are what's wrong with DART. Screw the suburbs. Dallas needs to quit DART and let the suburbs go build their own damn rail system. There's ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Dallas, The Next Portland! You Too, Fort Worth!
Via.No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they're handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Nex ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Denton's A-Train Bows to Music Scene Demands
Via.No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they're handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Nex ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
U.S. Department of Transpo Forks Over $5.6 Mil to Study OKC-to-DFW High-Speed Rail Line
U.S. Department of TransportationThis morning, as expected, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood passed out $2.4 billion in funding to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states. Among the recipients: the Texas Department of Transportation, which'll take home $5.6 million intended to allow a fu ... More >>
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October 9, 2010
Mayor Tom: "Dallas Is At the Heart of What is Happening in the U.S. Economy Today."
Chris HeinbaughOn the other side is the final dispatch from Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert's chief of staff, who's among the traveling party wrapping up that trade mission to Spain and France. The quote in the headline comes from the release that follows, in which Leppert says the Euros are r ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Under Madrid With Mayor Tom, or: How a Tunnel in Spain May Hint at Dallas's Rail Future
Chris HeinbaughA postcard from Mayor Tom and the Dallas delegation from the tunnel in which they spent part of their first day in MadridFunny thing: Yesterday, in the comments below, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone asked this about the Dallas delegation's trade mission to Europe: "I wo ... More >>
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October 2, 2010
Unwrapping the "Lead Gift" That'll Help Move Museum of American Railroad Outta Fair Park
At right, that's Amtrak's Texas Eagle -- or, at least, the coach car and first-class sleeping car that pulled into the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park yesterday. It's part of what the museum calls "its long-standing partnership with Amtrak to re-introduce the benefits of rail travel ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
Bullet Train With Butterfly Wings: More on Plans for Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail
On Tuesday we got our sneak peek at Central Japan Railway Company's presentation to Houston transportation officials intended to get 'em revved up about high-speed rail linking Dallas and Houston (and points in between). This morning, Culturemap Houston provides this lengthy follow-up: interviews ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2010
About That Dallas-to-Houston Bullet Train ...
About a year ago there was some big back-and-forthing over the viability of a high-speed rail connecting Dallas and Houston. But since then, we've heard next to nothing. Except: Our sister paper in Houston directs our attention this morning to news of a Monday-morning meeting during which Yoshiyu ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
Hop Aboard The Houston-to-Dallas High-Speed PowerPoint on Display Yesterday
From the presentation given yesterday to Harris County officials concerning a Dallas-Houston-etc. high-speed rail lineBack to that Houston-to-Dallas bullet train for a second ...Erik Noriega, manager of communications for the Greater Houston Partnership, was kind enough to send me Central Japan R ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Railroad Museum in Fair Park Gets a Prized Piece, And It's Headed Straight to Frisco
Once upon a time, the City Attorney's Office had hoped to get the Museum of the American Railroad outta Fair Park by August 1. But that was way back in February -- before the myriad court hearings and legal filings that ultimately led to Judge Martin Hoffman setting a January 2011 trial date in t ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
All Aboard
Once upon a time, the City Attorney's Office had hoped to get the Museum of the American Railroad outta Fair Park by August 1. But that was way back in February -- before the myriad court hearings and legal filings that ultimately led to Judge Martin Hoffman setting a January 2011 trial date in t ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
From OKC to Fort Worth, Heartland Flyer's Cow Fat Test Run Gets Nod in U.K.
Meant to point this out last week, when I first saw the story on Salon. But now it's made its way to the U.K. -- this story of the little train that could ... run on cow fat, that is, all the way from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth every single day. (Though "with stops along the way in Norman, Purce ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2010
Richard Allen on Logistics Hub's Chapter 11: "It's a Good Project. It's Just a Timing Issue."
Richard AllenOver the last year, whenever I have spoken with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, he has been open at times, guarded at others. But I have to say today, when he and I talked about his entry into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, he sounded better than he has in some time -- more confidant ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Yet Another Argument Against a High-Speed Rail Line Connecting Dallas and Houston
Speaking of traffic ... Megan McArdle, former Economist now at The Atlantic, is the latest to take up the issue of a hypothetical high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, which ain't on the government's to-do list but oh well it's fun to argue anyway. This morning she more or less makes t ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2009
More Arguing Over Viability of Hypothetical Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Link
Earlier this month, Harvard economic pro Ed Glaeser wrote a series of pieces for The New York Times's Economix blog in which he argued that a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston wouldn't be economically viable. (Keep in mind, this was all hypothetical, since the Obama administration's ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2009
According to UNT Profs, DART's the "Economic Engine Making Dallas a World-Class City"
Click to expland the image if you actually want to peek at DART's 2030 Transit PlanThis morning at Dallas Area Rapid Transit HQ, president Gary Thomas lauded the rail expansion as "on time and under budget," and presented a new study by professors at the University of North Texas's Center for Econom ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2008
McCain's Talking "Texas T-Bone"
Click to expland the image if you actually want to peek at DART's 2030 Transit PlanThis morning at Dallas Area Rapid Transit HQ, president Gary Thomas lauded the rail expansion as "on time and under budget," and presented a new study by professors at the University of North Texas's Center for Econom ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2008
Is Fort Worth-Based BNSF Trying to "Intimidate Its Critics"?
Click to expland the image if you actually want to peek at DART's 2030 Transit PlanThis morning at Dallas Area Rapid Transit HQ, president Gary Thomas lauded the rail expansion as "on time and under budget," and presented a new study by professors at the University of North Texas's Center for Econom ... More >>
News
December 6, 2007
Birth Defects
Critics blame poisons from the tie plant for severe birth defects
News
December 6, 2007
American Toxic
The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim
News
November 29, 2001
Boxcar Willies
Increasing train traffic rattles nerves and homes in Fort Worth
News
July 20, 2000
Highwaymen
San Antonio conservatives and a professional road warrior try to hijack a DART rail election

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