Seems like only days ago we were watching those old home movies shot on Forest Lane, in which you catch a fleeting glimpse of the groovy brick-wall mural, between Midway and Rosser, painted in the spirit of 1976 by W.T. White students. The mural, done to cover graffiti that marred…
Called my dad the other day and asked him: “You know what’s coming to the Dallas Convention Center the first week of October?” To which he replied, very matter-of-factly: “Yeah, the Mecum auction.” Which he knows because my father, a second-generation car-parts man, spends his occasional free Saturday nights watching…
Could have sworn we just saw an Annual Urban Mobility Report from the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M — like, eight months ago. Maybe the Aggies couldn’t wait any longer to bring the good news: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington drivers no longer waste 48 hours behind the wheel annually, stuck on…
If you didn’t know who Leisha Hailey was this morning, you probably will by the end of the day. She’s the latest celebrity taking to Twitter to call out Love Field-based Southwest Airlines, which removed her from a plane today — not because she’s considered a heavy-duty “safety risk” like…
Came across this on the city’s website: an invite to an open house at R.L. Turner on Tuesday, during which Texas Department of Transportation officials will discuss a project that, as Jim noted only yesterday, the North Texas Tollway Authority wants no part of — the expansion of IH35 from…
The Census Bureau released a lot of data this morning, including the 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates; we’ll get to that once we look over the charts and graphs — fun! But among the docs dumped is Commuting in the United States: 2009, which says, among other things,…
Last week the LBJ Express folks were kind enough to provide us with this crude but nevertheless edutaining look at how traffic patterns were going to be shifted in advance of the pedestrian walkway boom that wasn’t, not yet. But this weekend, they insist the Monfort bridge demolition will take…
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…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee is meeting at this very moment; tune in if you have absolutely, positively nothing better to do. That said: After our chat this morning, TxDOT spokesperson Cynthia Northrop White said that when she got back to the office, she’d pass along a better look…
This just in: They won’t be taking down the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway over LBJ Freeway this weekend after all. Not sure when it’ll happen — the release we just received says only “at a later date.” So, not a full pardon, only a temporary reprieve from what was expected…
What you see above is the LBJ Express project’s sneak preview of the lane closures about to hit LBJ Freeway this weekend, as the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway meets its maker at 1 a.m. Sunday. (No, really. One in the morning.) But before that, beginning at 7 Saturday night, eastbound…
First, the city of Dallas said it would begin exploring the possibility of selling naming rights to … well, you name it, from city-owned facilities to its vehicles; first on the to-sell list, the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill. A few weeks later, Dallas Independent School District trustee…
A little past 7 Saturday evening we stopped by to say our farewells to the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway over LBJ Freeway, between Marsh and Webb Chapel, which will be demolished in coming weeks to make way for the extreme managed toll-road makeover. As with the Forest Lane cruisin’ reunion,…
Must be the season for new websites — first Dallas Independent School District, now Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Morgan Lyons, spokesman for the transit agency, sends word this morning: The old URL directs you to a spiffed-up site, where, he writes, “We’ve tried to open the look and put a…
Couple of days back, in this poorly written item, we looked at LBJ Infrastructure Group’s proposed change to the design for the LBJ Express — at least the section of sunken managed toll lanes originally designed to run beneath the Dallas North Tollway. Spokesman Andy Rittler also noted a new…
Speaking of the LBJ Express …Andy Rittler, spokesman for LBJ Infrastructure Group LLC, the developer of the LBJ do-over that will involve sinking managed toll lanes beneath 635, sends word of a public meeting tomorrow at the Sheraton Dallas North during which reps will present “a proposed change for the…
As I pulled onto LBJ at Marsh around 8:30 this morning, heading to the airport, I noticed that construction on the LBJ Express redo has yet to take its toll on traffic, save for the westbound HOV lane shutdown that had some traffic slowed to a fast-paced crawl. Then I…
Speaking of mass transit …Today the Regional Transportation Council of the North Central Texas Council of Governments met with the local citizenry at a public meeting at the pleasantly named Center for Community Cooperation on Live Oak. Much of the conversation picked up where Robert’s chat with Dallas Area Rapid…
Last month we broke the news that Dallas Area Rapid Transit would begin charging for parking at the Parker Road and North Carrollton/Frankford stations, an experiment (or “demonstration,” in DART parlance) intended to boost flagging revenues. DART’s been eying this for a long while; public hearings on the subject were…
Friend of Unfair Park BigJonDaniel passes along the video you see above: a Dallas Area Rapid Transit-produced sneak peek at the Cotton Belt Regional Rail Corridor, which would stretch from Wylie to southwest Fort Worth. Of course, right now it’s closer to concept than reality: Last summer, the North Central…
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 precise, courtesy Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds, otherwise known as TIGER…
Last month we noted that Dallas Area Rapid Transit has long has a policy in place prohibiting beer and wine ads on buses and light rail. Why? No real reason, other than previous boards didn’t much like the idea. But DART needs dough, which is why, over the course of…
