It was shortly before or not long after I read Robert Wilonsky’s post from earlier this week about Dallas retaking its rightful crown as the country’s worst major city for cyclists that I wiped out, in suitably humiliating fashion, as I rode my bike to work down Hillcrest Road. I…
. Remember those motorcyclists who briefly took over Central Expressway last year to peel out, do wheelies, spraypaint tributes to fallen comrades, and generally distract commuters from their smart phones? NBC 5 does and reports today that they’re coming back. But Central Expressway is so last year, so the riders…
Anyone who has ridden cross-country on a Greyhound bus, and who walked by the bus station on Lamar Street yesterday, would have assumed that the group of protesters gathered there were speaking out against the inhumane conditions suffered by its passengers. On the contrary, the picketers were members of the Amalgamated…
Nothing says Dallas quite an unbroken line of cars inching down a four-lane freeway from far-flung suburbs, wrapping themselves and the rest of the city in a shroud of exhaust. We live for this stuff. Why else would Dallasites spend 58 hours per year in traffic? Apparently, though, our love…
Love Field and TSA officials have a message for the public: STOP CARRYING GUNS THROUGH SECURITY. SERIOUSLY, GUYS. Fifteen travelers tried to carry guns through the Love Field security checkpoint this year — that’s compared to one person in the same period of time last year. Holy shit, right? That’s…
The City Hall staffers who last year tried to toss road blocks in the path of a City Council plan to stripe 840 miles of bike lanes in Dallas — that’s 840 miles more than what the city has now — might be pleasantly surprised by part of what Gil…
More than two years since the cities of Dallas, Fort Worth and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board sued Chesapeake for allegedly shorting them on millions in royalties and leaving wells undrilled, the airport and the energy company have reached an agreement. As the price of natural gas hovers at…
The Texas Department of Transportation foots much of the bill for the road damage brought about by trucks traveling to and from hydraulic fracturing operations, and for the first time, the agency is collecting data with an eye to possibly recouping future funds. Short-term spending for TxDOT includes $40 million…
Update: 3:06 p.m.: CNN has a video wherein you can hear the disruption. It’s embedded below. Update, 12:30 p.m.: The flight’s on the ground, but it will need to restock its alcohol supply. Details after the original. Update, 11:23 a.m.: American has confirmed the incident, and says two flight attendants…
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: Should this study prove such a line…
That item below — the one that says the Texas Department of Transportation is still hoping to open the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge to vehicular traffic on March 5, immediately following the Trinity Trust and Bridge-o-Rama’s respective now-not-really-opening-weekend wingdings? Forget it. Just forget it. This just came in from Dallas…
Speaking of putting cars on bridges over the Trinity River, or not …Couldn’t quite tell from last night’s Channel 8 piece if the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will indeed be open to vehicular traffic following next weekend’s opening events; said Jason Whitely, there’s a shot it’ll be closer to mid-March,…
Last March council members Delia Jasso and Pauline Medrano joined Dallas Bike Coordinator Max Kalhammer and others for a bike ride through Seville, Spain, with Jasso sending word that the locals were strapping on their thinking helmets for a possible ciclovía somewhere in Dallas, which means turning over a complete…
It’s gettin’ close to the most wonderful time of the year for the Barking Dog — St. Patrick’s Day, which is about a month away. Over the weekend, Avi Adelman posted to his website the city and Dallas PD’s freshly minted map of street closures planned for Lower Greenville on…
Exactly one year ago Dallas Area Rapid Transit announced that it had signed a $210-million contract with Anniston, Alabama-based North American Bus Industries, Inc. for a new fleet of compressed natural gas-fueled buses, which DART promised to start rolling out by October 2012. This morning I stumbled across this just-posted…
I’d called Keith Manoy, one of the city’s senior transpo planners, about this earlier in the day; but since then I’ve heard from one of his colleagues, who promises more details about those Elm and Commerce conversions — a time line, to be specific — sooner than later. But while…
For more than a year the city’s been talking about two-waying Elm Street in Deep Ellum, with Commerce to follow. Last we heard there wasn’t enough to fund the whole project; there’s $6 million in ’06 bond money, but not enough to finish what the city hopes to start sooner…
Following the passage of HB1353, the Texas Department of Transportation has been looking at where it oughta bump up the state’s speed limit to 75 miles per hour. Today it released that list, and it spans some 1,500 miles of Texas highways — a “major milestone,” per the press release…
I’ve been trying since daybreak to reach Max Kalhammer, the city’s bike coordinator, to talk about the not-at-all-surprising results of the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s 2012 Benchmarking Report, which says we’re one of the worst big cities in the entire country when it comes to people riding their bikes…
I felt the need last night, the need for the Speed channel, which carried the live-from-Scottsdale broadcast of the Barrett-Jackson auction — where, as you’re well aware by now, they put a certain hearse of local renown on the bidding block. So, then, how much did they fetch for Vernon…
Who doesn’t love Love Field? Easily negotiated, convenient, it’s everything that Dallas-Fort Worth International isn’t. But it’s always had that dingy, regional-airport feel. Said interim Aviation director Mark Duebner, “Compared to what we’ve been working with — our 1950s terminal with few amenities — this will be worth the wait.”…
At 1 today the Regional Transportation Council will discuss the doc you see below: the 132-page report finished last month as part of the so-called Cotton Belt Corridor Innovative Finance Initiative, which the North Central Texas Council of Governments touts on today’s agenda as “a thorough investigation of potential innovative…
