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  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Survey Says American, Southwest Are the Top Two Carriers When It Comes to Losing Bags

    ​A Friend of Unfair Park passes along The Wall Street Journal's latest look-see at how well the big carriers handle passengers and their luggage, and per the annual Middle Seat survey the two locally based airlines don't do so well when it comes to getting your bags to your destination. As in: Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    DART Wanted $130 Mil In DOT Funds For Line to DFW. It Got Much Less. But Anything Helps.

    ​Only yesterday we noted the Dallas Area Rapid Transit is ready to go on that final leg of the Orange Line that'll connect with Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The price tag's steep: $149,750,000 for the third section of the Orange Line, from Belt Line Station to DFW. And t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Dallas Pedicabs: Rolling in Uptown, But Will Anyone Go Along for the Ride?

    Samantha GuzmanDallas Pedicab, rolling in Uptown​Robert Tobolowsky wobbled through the doors of Stubb's as the echo of roots and jam rang in his ears. It was a January night earlier this year; Tobolowsky, a Dallas native and recent SMU grad, was in Austin visiting friends. He stepped onto the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Union Station-to-Oak Cliff Streetcar Line Gets an Additional $3 Million From the Feds

    Current Photo By Alex Scott/Historic Photo ©Dallas Historical Society​In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds -- $23 million, to be pr ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Mike Rawlings Would Now Like to Have a Word About That Trail Safety Campaign Contract

    ​So far today we've heard from Ron Natinsky, David Kunkle, City Auditor Craig Kinton and even Mayor Dwaine Caraway about last night's Channel 8 story, which alleged that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings used his influence as Park Board president to get city officials to hire his friend and former T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Feds Fine American Airlines Over Voucher Fees

    Via.​The Department of Transportation sends word today that it's charging American Airlines for charging its passengers for agreeing to swap seats on oversold flights for travel vouchers. Because, ya see, the Fort Worth-based carrier doesn't just let you use the vouchers gratis -- turns out, AA ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Fort Worth Council Votes Against Streetcar Project, Gives Up $25 Million in Federal Grant

    ​A couple of weeks back we posted that photo of the borrowed streetcar parked in downtown Fort Worth, which city officials said they'd put there to get folks excited about spending that $25 million Urban Circulator Grant. At which point, several Fort Worth-l-i-v-i-n Friends of Unfair Park cautione ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    If FW Passes on Feds' $25 Mil Transpo Grant, Dallas Wants For Streetcars. Good Luck.

    University of Texas at Arlington LibraryMain and Akard, circa 1953​The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee meeting just wrapped, with Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez updating the council on the status of streetcars. Read all about it. But in the middle of Gonzalez's presen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 Transportation​This 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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    City Expects $2 Mil In Federal Money Will Spur Development Around Four Light-Rail Stations

    The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds' grant announced this morning​This morning we've received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    The City's Head of Transportation Operations Talks About What's Next for Streetcars

    University of Texas at Arlington Special Collection​Spent a little time Thursday talking to city officials about the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority's $5-mil loop through downtown. And, almost always, our conversations ended with the person on the other end saying, "You really need to talk to Ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    In the Loop: A Closer Look at MATA's "Urban Streetcar Track Extension" Downtown

    Click to embiggen: DART sends this map of the MATA's downtown loop​Morgan Lyons, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's spokesman, and Jay Kline, DART's streetcar liaison with the city, were kind enough to forward along this map of the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority's "0.65-mile urban streetcar track exte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    With Feds Loaning "LBJ Express" Project $850 Mil, Expect Delays Beginning Spring 2011

    It's been a long while since we've made mention of the New LBJ Freeway -- like, since February 2009, when the Texas Department of Transportation announced that an international consortium called LBJ Development Partners -- which includes Spanish-based Cintra, French-based Meridiam Infrastructure Fin ... More >>

  • News

    February 25, 2010

    Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

    It's been a long while since we've made mention of the New LBJ Freeway -- like, since February 2009, when the Texas Department of Transportation announced that an international consortium called LBJ Development Partners -- which includes Spanish-based Cintra, French-based Meridiam Infrastructure Fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Feds Give DART $5.3 Million to See Into the Future In Order to Reduce N. Central Traffic

    ​Earlier this afternoon, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Morgan Lyons sent word that the U.S. Department of Transportation is giving DART $5.3 million to fund something called an Integrated Corridor Management system. The feds have been messing around with this for years in an effort to unclog heavily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    A Desire Named Streetcar, Part 281

    Just in case you were wondering where those streetcars might go ... ​Streetcars have been on the city council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit's radar since well before the May 23, 2008, book-club get-together at Dallas City Hall, during which city officials and downtown stakeholders got a talking-to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Of Rusty Wrecks and Fake Insurance Cards: Local Dealers Say Adios to Cash for Clunkers.

    Posteritati​According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, via this New York Times story about today's cash-for-clunkers deadline, I'm the proud owner of one of the most popular trade-ins: a Jeep Cherokee, which is starting to drive like today's its expiration date as well. So, how'd it go fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    American Makes $278 Mil From Checked Bags, to Which Southwest Responds, "So?"

    According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Airlines pocketed $278 million in bag fees last year, putting it at the top of the list of airlines making extra scratch by charging to lose your luggage. But Dallas-based Southwest Airlines insists it still won't go there: Southwest CEO G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Out in West Texas, Harold Simmons Is Burying Hudson River Carcinogens

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2008

    Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    Southwest's Up and Down Day

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    Taking Its Toll

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    American Airlines: They'll Get Ya There. At Some Point.

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2007

    Money-Huggers

    How can all the top dogs in Dallas come out against TXU and coal?

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2006

    Dean Writes Own Deal, Deal?

    How can all the top dogs in Dallas come out against TXU and coal?

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2006

    Flights of Fancy

    How can all the top dogs in Dallas come out against TXU and coal?

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Jailbait

    Frank Rodriguez faces a lifetime on Texas’ sex offender registry for having sex with a 16-year-old—who is now his wife. He’s not alone.

  • 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

    January 6, 2000

    Loaded for take-off

    Legend Airlines plans to chart a different course from the average meal-in-a-sack airline

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Letters

    Legend Airlines plans to chart a different course from the average meal-in-a-sack airline

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Look back in confusion

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • News

    December 31, 1998

    Highway roulette

    In Texas, more people die in truck crashes than any state in the country. It's not an accident.

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Bait and switch

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

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Enough is enough

    Legend Airlines accuses Fort Worth of discrimination and demands that feds cut funds

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    The (W)right to Fly

    How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    Buzz

    How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Rough road ahead

    NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

  • News

    February 16, 1995

    Pickup Games

    How a giant lawsuit against General Motors could leave lawyers with millions - and Texas truck owners breathing fumes

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