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May 25, 2012
Denton County Transit Authority Kills Its Friday Night Service: What Does It Mean For Music Fans?
The Denton Country Transit Authority (DCTA) board met last night to consider a number of service and schedule changes, but no item they discussed will get as much attention as their decision on Friday night service. The board met to consider offering additional mid-day runs and extending service on ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
The Bogus 'Detour' Argument for the Trinity Toll Road is Finally Dead
Wait. Click the pause button. Freeze this. There's a huge point here that some people do not want us to notice. In the last 24 hours, the entire debate about the Trinity River toll road has completely shifted ground. I was just now on the phone about it with City Council member Scott Griggs. He poi ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
How Did 65-Year-Old Woman Manage to Get Gun Through DFW Airport Security, Anyway?
Via.No doubt you've heard by now that a 65-year-old Little Elm woman was arrested at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this morning for taking a .38-caliber pistol aboard an American Airlines flight. The Transportation Security Administration sent out a press release early this morning; a c ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
"The Times Are A-Changin'": Hunt, Griggs Ask Pointed Questions About Trinity Toll Road
NCTCOG's Michael MorrisAccording 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 >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Illegally Occupy DART's HOV Lanes, and Prepare to Pay. But Fare Evaders Catch a Break.
There are several items of interest and note on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's agenda for today, but let's focus on two for now -- the ones on the Operations Committee's to-do list that'll impact drivers of cars and riders of mass transit ... well, the naughty ones, anyway. First up: HOV f ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Spirit Offers Another DFW-to-Chicago Option
On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only f ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
DART's CFO and Linda Koop Talk About How Streetcars Will Be Funded and When They'll Operate (Weekdays Only, Unless ...)
This is for sale right now on eBay. Seven bids so far, up to $31, 23 hours left. Cheaper than a time machine.So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk -- what else? -- streetcars, on both the DART board and city cou ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2010
Southwest's Flight Attendants Also Don't Much Care For TSA's New Screening Procedures
Southwest Airlines's 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don't wanna be scanned. And they don't wanna be gate-raped. That's the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrato ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2010
DART Prez Makes Good on World Series Bet
DART via BARTEarlier this morning I came across this San Francisco TV report: "Texan to sing at BART station over World Series bet." Said Texan is actually Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas, who made a bet with his BART counterpart that involved the loser goin ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2010
About That Second Downtown Light-Rail Line ...
Last night, as expected, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's board signed off on that $1.25-billion budget and 20-year financial plan, which eliminates 150 positions and some rail service, as trains will now run every 15 minutes instead of every 10. The good news-bad news details follow for those who fol ... More >>
News
July 1, 2010
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?
Last night, as expected, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's board signed off on that $1.25-billion budget and 20-year financial plan, which eliminates 150 positions and some rail service, as trains will now run every 15 minutes instead of every 10. The good news-bad news details follow for those who fol ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2010
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board to OK Proposed Bus Route Changes Today
Click to enlarge: From DART's Planning Committee agenda concering bus-route changes being voted on todayBack in February, we directed your attention to forthcoming route changes being proposed by Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which is looking to delete "costly duplications," especially as the Green ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Mea Culpa, You-a Culpable, And We Want Our Trinity Naysayers Takedown Now!
I am embarrassed, and I want to offer the Friends of Unfair Park an apology. Last Thursday I proferred an ironclad prediction that The Dallas Morning News would run one of its aw-shucks-yer-pretty-head Trinity River columns or editorials by Sunday, two days ago, telling readers not to pay attent ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Lies, Damned Lies and Project Pegasus: Yet Again, News Reveals It Lied About Trinity Toll Road Without Fessing Up
Yesterday on The Dallas Morning News transportation and editorial blogs, Rodger Jones, an editorial writer, casually passed on a bit of information -- as if it were a sort of minor tid-bit -- gleaned from a recent meeting of the editorial board with Texas Department of Transportation Regional Eng ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
How At-Risk is Second Downtown Light Rail Alignment Given DART's Shortfall?
One of the projects most threatened by Dallas Area Rapid Transit's sales-tax receipt shortfall, announced yesterday, is the second downtown light-rail alignment -- the so-called D2 that's been under consideration since at last the fall of 2007 and which, in January 2008, the Dallas City Council d ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
DART Wants to Take You to the Super Bowl. But the Feds Have to Sign Off.
I was looking at the meeting agenda for tomorrow's Dallas Area Rapid Transit board meeting and noticed a couple of items of interest on the planning committee sneak peak, chief among them: If DART wants to get folks from member cities to the Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium come February, it'll have ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Wherein Schutze Asks The News: Where's the "Trinity River Toll Road Dead!" Headline?
Ah, you know, even a blind hog can find the truth buried somewhere in The Dallas Morning News if he knows how to root-hog-or-die. Reminds me of the thing I wrote about two years ago, when The News waited until the day after the Trinity River referendum to reveal something its transportation write ... More >>
News
November 26, 2009
Dallas' Former Bike Czar Tells Newbie Riders to Go Play in Traffic
Ah, you know, even a blind hog can find the truth buried somewhere in The Dallas Morning News if he knows how to root-hog-or-die. Reminds me of the thing I wrote about two years ago, when The News waited until the day after the Trinity River referendum to reveal something its transportation write ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Oak Cliff Transit Authority Hopes City Will Still Consider Streetcars on Continental Bridge
Like we said Friday, once upon a time the city had hoped to turn the Continental Bridge into a streetcar-pedestrian park mash-up -- that conceptual rendering you see above didn't come outta nowhere. But one anonymous $10-million donation later, and, as Jim noted upon his return from City Hall yes ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2009
Jeez, Merten, Did You Not Read Rodrigue?
Sam MertenSince everyone has been reliving the Trinity referendum lately, it seemed appropriate to dig this up out of the photo archives.Shortly before the 2007 referendum on the Trinity Turnpike, I discussed a Dallas Morning News editorial written by Colleen McCain Nelson, in which she had a hard t ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Writes Angela Hunt Today: "The Fact Is, This Toll Road Project is Dead."
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2008
Some 900 AA Flight Attendants Get a Choice: Get Pushed Out or Jump from the "Voluntary Bridge to Retirement"
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2008
AA Raises Fares, But, Really, What's Another Twenty Bucks Among Friends?
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2008
More Evidence That Dallas Is Headed Down the Road to Ruin
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2008
Television Haters Want American To Fly Friendler Fare. They'll Get Right On It.
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2008
DART Wants to Know How You Feel About those Downtown "Corridor Alternatives"
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2007
Some SMU Profs Offer Their "Loop Solution" to the Trinity River Toll Road
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
News
November 1, 2007
Trinity Showdown
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
News
August 9, 2007
Tell the Truthiness
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2007
Angela Hunt Sends Wick Allison a Note; Smelled a Little Like Vanilla Maybe?
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2007
Angela Hunt: "Let the Voters Decide."
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2006
The Wright Flight Flies into D.C.
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2006
For a Change, American Airlines is Against Itself
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2006
The Wright Way to Mess With American?
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2006
Airline Tickets for the Wright Price
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2006
Whatta Load
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
News
December 16, 2004
Letters
That's the council member's assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday's news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated "unacceptable" 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project is dead. There's ... More >>
Dining
January 15, 2004
Meal Tickets
Are airline meals worth the cost?
News
July 17, 2003
Rouging the Corpse
Miller wants to pretty-up a stinker on the Trinity River deal
News
July 10, 2003
Idiot's Highway
That toll road they want for the Trinity is a loser
News
June 19, 2003
Memory Problem
Plans for a 9-11 memorial for American Airlines workers hit snags
News
March 20, 2003
Greasing the Wheels
How Texas Motor Speedway got Denton County to pay for a freeway exit to nowhere�except, that is, to the speedway
News
December 7, 2000
Love's Labor Lost
The silence is deafening at City Hall over expanding Love Field, but Jim Schutze has some advice for airport neighbors: Buy earplugs.
News
July 20, 2000
Highwaymen
San Antonio conservatives and a professional road warrior try to hijack a DART rail election
News
February 24, 2000
Air homophobia
A gay-bashing pilot prompts a change at Southwest Airlines
News
October 16, 1997
The (W)right to Fly
How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game
News
June 20, 1996
Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here
How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game
News
January 19, 1995
One Scared Puppy
Why Dallas' Greyhound Lines is fighting for its life
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