At last, that long-awaited Union Station to Oak Cliff Dallas Streetcar Environmental Assessment is now available for your reading pleasure courtesy Dallas Area Rapid Transit. You’ll find the report itself after the jump; those wishing to drill deeper can peruse the myriad appendices here. But long story short, says Keith…
Dallas is all about the hike-n-bike these days, what with Complete Streets and Better Blocks and Bike Plans and Pedestrian Bridges and whatever else will help us ease on down, ease on down the road. Good thing too, since walking ’round Dallas — and Fort Worth and Arlington — can…
That LBJ Freeway overhaul we’ve been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesman for the LBJ Express: “We anticipate there is going to be…
Just couldn’t hold this till item till 4:20, so sorry. But I’d meant to mention last week that the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (or NORML) was staging its part of the World Wide Marijuana March on May 7 on the Dallas…
About a month back we looked at docs the Texas Department of Transportation submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration in the hopes of landing some federal money dough for that loooooong-discussed Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Houston high-speed rail line. Long story short: The state wanted $18 million so it could begin ID’ing possible…
On the other side’s a video that started making the rounds yesterday (courtesy Alex Jones and FOX News) in which 2003 Miss USA winner-turned-actress Susie Castillo cries into a camera while recounting a particularly invasive pat-down at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Says Castillo — speaking, she says, immediately after the…
Below, Big Jon Daniel was mazel-tov’ing us Northwest Dallasites about all traffic headed our way, up and down Forest Lane, once Cintra begins planting those managed toll lanes up and down LBJ between I-35 and N. Central Expressway. Which reminded me: Way back in January, Mark Roberts — the man…
We begin this morning, like last, with talk of tearing out another freeway — only this one’s a done deal. On the other side is a brief video just posted by the folks at Spanish road-builder Ferrovial and its subsidiary Cintra, in which the majority owners of the about-to-commence LBJ…
On Friday, Keith Manoy, the chief transportation planning officer, spoke to Unfair Park about who will be responsible for what when it comes to the designing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Union Station-to-near-Methodist Hospital streetcar line, which has to be up and running down the Houston Street Viaduct by…
Speaking of transportation and the suburbs …Been meaning to mention this for weeks, but Patrick Kennedy’s post on the subject reminds: There’s a Facebook page called Save Downtown Dallas: Tear Down Central Expressway — a subject that’s addressed from a distance in the just-adopted-by-city-council Downtown Dallas 360, actually. As in:…
As you’re no doubt aware, American Airlines’ flight attendants and service workers have long been at odds with the Fort Worth-based carrier over new contracts, leading to an endless parade of protests — including ones at Dallas-Fort Worth International during Super Bowl week and one on Wednesday at JFK in…
As we saw this morning, the city’s having enough problems funding that 1.6-mile streetcar starter line from Union Station to Methodist Hospital (or close to). So how does it expect to stretch track over more than 40 miles in and three miles around downtown Dallas, which is the ultimate goal?…
Here’s a council committee briefing worth keeping an eye on today: Streetcar Planning Update, always a topic of interest but even more so as the Federal Transit Administration revenue-service deadline barrels down the tracks. Recall: In order to not to lose that $23-million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant the…
I just stumbled across this piece out of Houston, which says the Texas Department of Transportation has submitted docs to the feds asking for around $43 million to expedite that long-discussed and even longer-debated Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail line. I called Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at TxDOT,…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent weeks: When should they begin avoiding LBJ Freeway, which, of course, is about to become the “LBJ Express”? (To which I replied: What, you don’t already avoid LBJ Freeway? I know, right? Hilarious!) One Friend asked in particular because he espied…
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…
