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…
Last month we noted that the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is considering selling ads for beer and wine on buses and light rail — which, right now, is prohibited by policy just because. After the jump you’ll find the board’s back-and-forth over that very subject, which could prove controversial;…
As it turns out, according to an article that just appeared on the Wall Street Journal’s website, life inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport air traffic control towers — otherwise known as the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, or TRACON — is sort of a cross between Airplane! and Pushing Tin…
One week ago today, the union representing Southwest Airlines’ flight attendants threatened to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it became public that a pilot had taken to the airwaves to broadcast his … let’s say … dissatisfaction with the quality of the Love Field-based carrier’s…
A couple of weeks back, in his column for the paper version of Unfair Park, Jim wrote about Scott Griggs and Angela Hunt’s desire to get the Trinity River Corridor Project back on track with projects “done quickly, cheaply and on a human scale.” You know who’s also involved? Ding,…
A lifelong Friend of Unfair Park just called from the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway wondering how in the hell did he miss the news that come Friday, the North Texas Tollway Authority’s jacking up rates, according to the flashing heads-up greeting motorists this morning. That’s understandable: The…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier’s flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were “11 fucking over-the…
On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only flying to Fort Lauderdale and Las…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board’s meeting today, and top o’ the agenda is the FY 2012 Budget and Twenty-Year Financial Plan, which factors into this news brief concerning Fitch’s decision to downgrade DART’s sales tax revenue bonds. Says the rating agency, the small dip from AA to AA- “reflects…
