Every year, the Airports Council International — a trade org representing most of the airports in the world — asks terminal travelers how they really feel about their skymalls. And every year, the ACI manages to keep those reports secret. Except this year: The Times of London has hidden behind…
Bloomberg News says this morning that higher oil prices may be bad for Texans, but are good for Texas — especially the so-called Rainy Day Fund Gov. Rick Perry doesn’t want to touch to offset the state’s $27-billion shortfall. (In a speech in Dallas only yesterday, the gov said the…
With a crowd of DART execs, reporters and folks who’d apparently misplaced their cars looking on at downtown’s Akard Station, the Kinkisharyo ameriTRAM streetcar made its first arrival a little after 11:30 this morning, just a hair behind schedule. The first of two audition runs through downtown carried VIPs, including…
So says this just-posted AP piece, which notes that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has decided to allow charter flights to Cuba from eight new airports — among them Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Juan … and Dallas-Fort Worth International! Till now, you could only fly out of New York,…
There’s an intriguing item on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board agenda this morning: “DART Board of Directors’ Streetcar Tour.” Which is exactly what it sounds like: At 11:30 this morning, the DART board — and some city of Dallas officials, says DART director of media relations Morgan Lyons –…
To follow up this morning’s item on Project Pegasus, which has been all but left for dead on the side of the Mixmaster …I spoke earlier today with Bill Hale, P.E., the district engineer for the Dallas District of the Texas Department of Transportation, and he said that, yup, “based…
From time to time, Friends of Unfair Park ask about the status of Project Pegasus, which is — or was — “intended to transform the two major Interstate Highways directly serving Downtown Dallas, by totally redesigning IH 30 from Sylvan Avenue to IH 45, and IH 35E from Eighth Street…
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 charges an up-to-$30 ticketing…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is meeting today, with the board once more set to award HDR Engineering, Inc. the $351,536 Dallas Streetcar System Planning Study Consultant contract. (Last month’s scheduled vote was deferred following a disagreement over minority- and women-business enterprise participation, as outlined in the January 25…
About four years back, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda ID’d Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the city center of the future — the so-called aerotropolis. Well, Kasarda’s turned his article into a full-blown tome that just landed in the mailbox: Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll…
Speaking of changes at Love Field …Mayor Tom Leppert — along with council members Delia Jasso and Linda Koop — yesterday sent a memo to City Manager Mary Suhm proposing that the city change the name of a section of Cedar Springs Road to Herb Kelleher Way. In honor of…
Morgan Lyons, director of media relations for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, says this morning that he too is “ready for some warmer weather.” Certainly would take some of the sting out of this morning’s kick to the crotch courtesy The Dallas Morning News’s editorial board, which chastises the transit agency…
On the other side, a Green Bay weatherlady HQ’d at Ice Station Zebra — pardon, downtown Fort Worth — is fed up with this “Wisconsin weather” too, and TxDOT takes us on a command center tour and slippery drive-along in Dallas. But here’s a sneak peek at today’s Martha Stewart…
City Hall just sent word: At midnight, shortly after the snow began to fall, the city went to Ice Force 1 — meaning, 30 sanding units took to the streets, where drivers, at least, are crawling along carefully, per Friends of Unfair Park as they headed back from the Flaming…
This just in from the Transport Workers Union of America, whose members have been engaged in drawn-out and heretofore unsuccessful negotiations with management at American Airlines: Beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, they’ll be picketing and leafleting at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Specifically, they’ll be marching up and down the sidewalks…
Below, in the comments, Brenda Marks wonders what the eff’s going on at Love Field, where all is most definitely not clear. So I called Frank Librio, PIO at City Hall, to see what gives. He asked around and reports back: “The long runway’s open” and can handle takeoffs and…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word: It’s back in action! For the most part:DART Rail is resuming and all three lines are operating on 30 minute headways. This will continue for the rest of the day. Buses are operating but slowly due to road conditions. All non-24 hour HOV lanes…
To the Dodge Ram driver who was futilely spinning his wheels on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway exit ramp this morning; the Lexus driver who locked her brakes and whirled her car across Maple Avenue; and the Ford 150 driver who couldn’t find the traction he needed to turn on to…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has suspended most of its light-rail service due to ice and wind. There is this update, though: “We are operating 4 trains on the Trinity Railway Express this morning instead of the usual 6. We are trying to operate trains out of Union and T&P about…
Speaking of beer and wine …From the sound of the latest forecast, at least, the idea of standing outside the Aloft Hotel Wednesday morning for a press conference could be rather, well, unpleasant. So we’ll go ahead and pass along this bit of news related to what the release calls…
The city, North Central Texas Council of Governments and Dallas Area Rapid Transit held that streetcar town hall last night. Among those in attendance was Jason Roberts — who, in addition to his myriad other titles and endeavors, is an Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member and the former head…
In the fall of ’09, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board inched toward spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buses that would be powered by compressed natural gas — as opposed to the liquefied natural gas and clean diesel presently fueling the current fleet. Mayor Tom Leppert, who…
