For a moment, it seemed that one small suburb in north Texas was prepared to take on the tow truck industry. It was less of a crackdown and more of an “education campaign,” according to Euless Police Department Lieutenant E.J. Starnes. The police were concerned that apartment complexes had made…
For the first time in three decades, Dallas is home to a downtown shuttle. And for the first time ever, the shuttle will not be marked by three-foot high bunny ears and painted-on whiskers, a la the ill-fated “Hop-a-Bus” program. The trademark pink will remain, however, as DART rolls out…
You’re speeding out of work with a cell phone in one hand and can of Coke between your knees, trying to make it home before the Chihuahua you keep locked inside all day shits the carpet again, when suddenly, one of those small, panicked dots appears in the distance, in…
All those brave, lonely nights in the back of an Uber car, acting like just another kid who needed a ride, all of those limo violations, all of that pretending: It was all a waste. Dallas is dismissing all the citations police had filed against Uber drivers. Uber’s attorney Joel…
A.C. Gonzales, the interim Dallas City Manager, has nearly completed his triple-lux fall onto the proverbial sword in the city’s attempt to marginalize Uber at the behest of the taxi industry. A short while ago, Mayor Mike Rawlings released and reacted to the findings of former Dallas County District Attorney…
Uber, thanks in no small part to Dallas’ reactionary, lobbyist-led crackdown, has been getting a lot of love in recent weeks. Uber’s convenient, fast, chic, and fits nicely into the role of a dashingly handsome David taking on Yellow Cab’s Goliath. If this Uber love has geographic center, it’s in…
If you happened to find yourself on westbound I-20 yesterday, our condolences. The entire interstate was closed for a brief time between Lancaster Avenue and Houston School Road, and lane closures lasted into the evening, causing traffic to back up for miles. You might be alarmed to discover that the…
At some point, after a year-plus of hand-wringing and delays, the push for DART to offer benefits to the domestic partners of employees took on an air of inevitability. Two weeks ago, the DART board’s administrative committee overwhelmingly voted to move forward with a “plus-one” plan, allowing unmarried employees to…
Each year, Allstate comes out with a list of America’s worst drivers, and each year, Dallas is puzzled to discover it doesn’t come out on top, an honor typically reserved for Washington, D.C. That’s not to say that drivers here aren’t terrible. In this year’s report, Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Irving,…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s “new, high-tech parking control plazas,” which cost $56 million and offer automated entry and exits for all visitors, were supposed to go live in late August, but the rollout was briefly pushed back because of minor technical hiccups. “The Parking Control System is a complex installation…
As anyone who’s ever forgotten to pay a toll bill or is capable of doing arithmetic knows, the eye-popping amounts owed by the North Texas Tollway Authority’s top toll violators is mostly fees. As an example, take reigning scofflaw champion Melissa Martinez. To rack up the $153,046.47 she owed the…
Good news for anyone who’s ever fumbled with change under a bus driver’s withering glare, or frantically mashed buttons on the ticket dispenser as the train pulls away. Starting next Monday, September 16, you can avoid all that thanks to GoPass, DART’s new mobile ticketing app. It works about how…
Pretend you busted your checking account and fell behind a few days on your rent. Would you feel safer if your landlord let a towing company take your car away? That’s the gist of an organization called the Texas Association of Safer Apartment Communities, a safety association landlords can join…
Arlington is celebrating this morning. After decades as the largest U.S. municipality without mass transit, the city now has a bus service. So park your Ford Excursion and prepare to retire your warmed-over gibes about Arlington as the ultimate suburban wasteland. All done? OK, now bring them back out of…
This morning, at a half hour past midnight, 20-year-old Benjamin Boyer was riding his bicycle south down Cole Street when his front tire slipped into the groove of the trolley track. He was thrown from his bike and, this being Dallas, he sailed straight into the back of a 2012…
Max Kalhammer is leaving City Hall at a key time for cycling in Dallas. During four years as the city’s bike coordinator, he helped develop a very solid citywide bike plan and oversaw a remarkable expansion of bike infrastructure in the city. Downtown is now crisscrossed by shared bike lanes,…
The writing had already been on the wall for weeks by the time a Senate committee convened in April to consider John Carona’s bill aimed at jump-starting construction of 62 miles of passenger rail along the Cotton Belt Corridor. The city of Fort Worth had scrawled the message in big,…
University Park’s old system of parking enforcement relied on humans and was, therefore, fallible. In un-metered, high-traffic areas like Snider Plaza and the Miracle Mile on Lovers Lane, an officer would mark car tires with chalk so it was easy to tell which ones had exceeded the two-hour parking limit…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comLast May, after conquering Central Expressway by stopping traffic and graffitiing the pavement as an inexplicable memorial to a fallen comrade, stunt bikers planned to do much the same to the newly opened Calatrava. But a heavy — and heavy-handed — police presence derailed those plans. Really,…
Walk Score became a thing almost as soon as the company first began rating the pedestrian-friendliness of cities and neighborhoods in 2007. By now, it’s so firmly established that it’s worked its way into the vernacular of real estate and urban planning. Zillow, for example, includes a walk score for…
Tesla’s bid to sell cars directly to Texas consumers, thus bypassing the state’s deep-pocketed car dealers, came up short this legislative session. But that’s not stopping the electric car company from edging its way into the Texas automotive market. Tesla announced Thursday that it’s tripling the number of Tesla Supercharger…
Fresh off its registration-blocking, car-impounding victory in the state legislature this month, the North Texas Tollway Authority is hiking the cost of driving on its roads. The agency announced this morning that toll rates are increasing by slightly less than a penny per mile come July 1, from 15.3 cents…
