U.S. Department of Transportation

DART Predicts Traffic Tweaks on Central Will Save $26 Million Per Year

Head down Central Expressway at or near rush hour, and you're guaranteed to spend awhile sitting in traffic. There's no guarantee, though, that any other route will be quicker, so drivers are left to sit and wait and wonder. You won't have to wonder for much longer. DART is rolling out a system nex ... More >>

The Ongoing Saga of Jabin Bogan, Whose Truck Full of Ammo Took a Wrong Turn into Mexico

In April, Jabin Bogan was transporting 268,000 rounds of ammunition from Tennessee to a gun shop in Arizona when he took a wrong turn. "He told me he was coming from the warehouse, missed a turn, and was stuck one-way going south," Bogan's manager at Demco Express, Dennis Mekenye, told ABC News. " ... More >>

If You're Into Biking, Just Go Ahead and Move to Fort Worth

Dallas and Fort Worth are similar. They're both in Texas, both have oversized conceptions of themselves, and both came of age in the automobile era. The cities also developed similar bike plans, involving miles of designated bike lanes, at about the same time. And that's where, transit-wise at least ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

Southwest's Up and Down Day

Taking Its Toll

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

Money-Huggers

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

Dean Writes Own Deal, Deal?

Flights of Fancy

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.

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.

Loaded for take-off

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

Letters

Look back in confusion

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

Highway roulette

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

Bait and switch

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

Enough is enough

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

The (W)right to Fly

How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

Buzz

Rough road ahead

NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

Pickup Games

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