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…
In the end, it wasn’t the opposition of the Fort Worth City Council that killed the Cotton Belt project, nor was it the opposition from neighbors in North Dallas. Not directly, at least. Rather, the 62-mile commuter rail that would run from Plano to Fort Worth, died a quiet death…
When the city first began putting down bike lanes last year, it was hard to divine if there was any grander vision than simply flinging paint at random patches of asphalt. In a century or so, we figured, they’d coalesce into the long-awaited Dallas Bike Plan. Until then, we were…
There would be some practical questions that would have to be answered if the Texas Department of Transportation decided to tear down I-345, the short stump of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and Interstate 30. Where will one find shade at Bark Park Central? Where will those artsy, bohemian types…
At sunrise on Wednesday, an airplane took off from Phoenix International Airport, eventually landing 1,000 miles to the east in Dallas. That in itself is hardly remarkable. Commercial jets travel the same path dozens of times each day. What was different about this journey was that the aircraft, the Solar…
If you’re looking to be entertained on your virtual 4-minute trip down the new LBJ Express, check out Frontburner’s commentary on a video clip released in January. But if you want a full, bird’s eye view of your future commute, take a glance at the clip above. As you can…
We’ve always assumed that The Dallas Morning News’ white-on-rice coverage of the Museum Tower dust-up has been the product of good shoe-leather reporting on the part of Steve Thompson and Gary Jacobson: combing through open records, studying up on the arcane world of public pensions, developing sources on the Dallas…
UPDATE: We are now in a system-wide ground delay until 4:00pm CT as we work to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) April 16, 2013 American Airlines broke the news a while ago that it’s in the midst of a massive, system-wide computer failure. Perhaps…
In February, a DART committee gave preliminary approval to a plan to extend employment benefits to employees’ domestic partners, both gay and straight, and their children. It was a welcome decision, and it gave hope that, after six month of debate over costs and morality, approval by the full DART…
We knew this was coming. The North Texas Tollway Authority kind of telegraphed it when the agency announced that some 6,000 of its top scofflaws would be referred to an outside law firm for possible litigation over their toll-ignoring ways. And now, it’s here. The NTTA filed more than a…
When a planned Downtown Dallas-to-McKinney bike tour was abruptly cancelled last month — this the one that would shut down 30 miles of Central Expressway — riders who had paid their registration for the race were promised a prompt and full refund, assuming they didn’t want to take a free…
Texas Central Railway’s plan, announced almost a year ago now, to build a high-speed rail line linking Houston and North Texas has hit a not altogether unexpected complication: inter-city squabbling over where the bullet train will stop. In Mobility 2035, its long-term vision for transportation in the region, the North…
If it’s not already there, add Pioneer Parkway in Arlington to the list of places it’s probably wiser not to ride your bike. As you can see above, the two lanes are broad and straight, perfect for cars to pick up speed, with only a narrow shoulder that disappears to…
If you need a reminder that Oak Cliff and downtown will soon be linked by street car, head over to the Houston Street and watch as drivers try to get across the viaduct, which is closed for construction. Another reminder: DART just announced that it’s officially sealed a $9.4 million…
In September, transportation planners revealed that they had finally found a way to finance the $2.7 billion Cotton Belt, the 62-mile commuter rail line they hope someday will connect Richardson and Fort Worth. A private consortium, the members of which are still being kept under wraps, had agreed to take…
