Sixty-three percent of Dallas residents who’ve made up their mind about whether or not a toll road should be built between the Trinity River levees oppose the project, according to extensive polling done by The Dallas Morning News between April 10 and April 17. Among registered voters who’ve made up…
The Trinity River toll road, that high-speed, six- to 10-lane highway between the levees that even Mayor Mike Rawlings’ appointed “Dream Team” of urban planners said was a truly bad idea, is not dead. It’s just looking a little peaked after a long, crowded City Council meeting where toll road…
The public reaction to Mayor Mike Rawling’s “Dream Team’s” coming-out party yesterday has been startling for its lack of cynicism. D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers wrote a piece headlined “Larry Beasley Just Killed the Trinity Toll Road” — Beasley is the leader of the Dream Team. The Morning News ran…
Police from across the state lined up at a hearing of the Texas Senate’s Transportation Committee to vouch for red light cameras. The cameras are not merely revenue generators, they prevent accidents and injuries, officers said. “If I could put a police officer on every corner where I have a…
The trains themselves are pretty damn neat. Slick, good looking and capable of operating without overhead wires, the city of Dallas’ new Union Station to Oak Cliff streetcar looks the way one might wish the transit authority’s light rail vehicles looked. The thing is, and this should change later this…
Just before Dallas’ revamped transportation-for-hire regulations go into effect on April 30, a new report shows how deep of a foothold app-based car service Uber has carved into the city. Dallas and San Francisco are the the two cities that saw more business users take trips in an Uber car…
It’s not about the road. It’s about the park. So says the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter, which released a statement Wednesday condemning the long-planned, under-funded Trinity toll road. AIA Dallas supports a great Trinity Park as essential to the future health and prosperity of Dallas. Any highway similar…
For two long weeks, workers at the Carmel Car Wash on Mockingbird Lane heard a constant “bang bang” sound. It wasn’t gunshots. It was cars going through a pot hole so bad that complaints of tire blow-outs were common. In the Lakewood Advocate, Rick Wamre wrote four days ago that…
We’ve been highly critical of DART’s handling of winter weather here at Unfair Park. The agency’s cuts to bus service during inclement weather leave Dallas without adequate public transit at the time when it’s most needed. That being said, the limits Winter Weather Scenario One places on rail service make…
In advance of the thundersleet-bearing storm that’s currently causing a minor inconvenience throughout North Texas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit put its new winter weather contingency plan into effect for the first time. It was fitting capper to AIA Dallas’ car-free week: Dallas’ already suspect public transit system significantly cutting service…
When word came down Tuesday of a new PAC intended to support getting rid of Interstate 345, the freeway bridge that cleaves downtown Dallas from Deep Ellum and connects I-45 to U.S. 75, one of the most interesting names listed among the PAC’s supporters was former state Senator John Carona…
Lest you consider, not that you would, heading to Arlington for any pre-Valentine’s Day fun via I-30, Unfair Park has a few words of advice: Don’t. Unless you don’t care if you actually make it back to Dallas. TxDOT will be closing the two left lanes of the eastbound side…
Another train line through a bottlenecked downtown. Increasing bus and train frequency, even a little. Late-night service, even if it’s just on the weekends. These are the things DART riders want, at least according to the long-term survey the agency has commissioned as it plans the next decade. Those things…
Finally getting what Austinites have enjoyed for a while now, people looking for parking in the city of Dallas can get real-time data about prices, what spaces are available and even, depending on the space they want to park in, reserve it in advance. The city manager’s office, as it…
Not content with bleeding us dry one toll at a time, the North Texas Tollway Authority plans to squeeze traffic to a near standstill in and around downtown this weekend. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, two lanes on each side of the tollway will be closed…
On Tuesday, Toyota will break ground on its new North American headquarters in Plano. Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz is celebrating the launch of the project by pretending that Texas’ outsize corporate incentives had no influence on the company’s relocation. In an interview at the North American International Auto…
One thing has proved true during each of Dallas’ last two significant winter storms, DART service — DART rail service specifically — will fail. The week that Jerryworld hosted the Super Bowl in 2011, DART light rail suffered its first full shut down. Almost three years later, DART experienced another…
Everyone in Dallas drives around with a mental map showing the contours of local traffic enforcement. It shows the places where cops with itchy ticket-fingers treat minor driving infractions as tantamount to high treason and, conversely, those spots where they are too busy catching murderers or snacking on doughnuts (depending…
Sustained high oil production in the Permian Basin, the Bakken region of North Dakota and Western Canada, along with the seeming willingness of OPEC to ride out the resultant plummeting oil prices mean gas prices will continue to remain below recent levels, according to GasBuddy.com’s 2015 Fuel Price Outlook. In…
If you’re flying out of the newly Wright Amendment-unencumbered Love Field this week and haven’t yet found a parking space, you can breathe a shallow sigh of relief. The airport will have 1,150 more spaces for Christmas than it did for Thanksgiving. Almost half of those spaces (500) are valet…
After this weekend, lord willing, DART’s replacement of downtown’s light rail track will finally be over. The work was scheduled to be done at the end of November, but bad weather has forced the final weekend of work to be pushed to tomorrow and Sunday, leaving Christmas shoppers downtown and…
Starting in the spring of 2015, cabs, limos and app-based services like Uber will operate on a reasonably level playing field. That’s the end result of months of wrangling that culminated with three and a half hours of debate before the Dallas City Council voted 13-2 to approve a transportation-for-hire…
