The Dallas City Council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will hold a joint meeting this morning during which they’ll discuss, among other things, DART’s long-term expansion plans, the planned Blue Line extension to the University of North Texas at Dallas campus and that second downtown light-rail line that’s been…
The third public meeting for the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan, billed as an opportunity to review the first full draft of the document City Council will see this spring, was as much pep rally as policy session. The map unveiled last night has been tweaked to incorporate citizen suggestions, so…
That headline is the very first sentence in a press release from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration announcing that on Thursday, it and the North Central Texas Council of Governments finally signed the grant agreement that will provide $23 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds for the Union…
At the stroke of midnight this morning, the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which promises a look at “the most accurate picture yet of traffic congestion in the 439 U.S. urban areas.” Long story short, after two years of slight declines in the…
No doubt City Hall will send out a release sooner or later, or post it to the City Secretary’s open-meetings page, but we like to plan ahead. So, in case you missed the notice — buried in tiny type at the bottom of Page 4B in the morning paper, right…
No doubt you’ve heard about, or read about, the fuel-tanker spill that closed down I-30 west of downtown early this morning. So happens good, good friend of the show Jeff Liles, who was on his way back to Oak Cliff after the Frankie Campagna memorial show at Club Dada at…
No doubt this will displease Shotgun Schutze, the noted model rocketeer and crop-duster who has crazy-big plans for Super Bowl Sunday. But via RotorNews we get a look at the Federal Aviation Administration’s just-issued temporary flight restrictions issued for Dallas-Fort Worth during that weekend. Among the myriad do’s and don’t:The…
Southwest officials hopped on conference calls with aviation-biz writers yesterday to lay out the details of its long-in-the-works Rapid Rewards do-over, which Ryan Green, the Love Field-based carrier’s Senior Director of Customer Loyalty and Partnerships, calls “the single biggest new product launch in our Company’s history” over on the SWA…
The Texas Transportation Commission-created TxDOT Restructure Council sends word today: Its long-awaited report, full o’ recommendations aimed at improving the broke(n) Texas Department of Transportation, is done and available for reading right … here. And high on the to-do list: Throw out the TxDOT leadership. Says the doc: “It is…
No, seriously. Says so right here, on the DC Streetsblog site, where today they’re handing out best-and-worst-of-2010 nods. Something to do with streetcars and bike lanes and Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line expansion. Well, all right. To the kudos!We give our 2010 Streetsie for The Next Portland to Dallas/Fort…
Andrea Grimes: A month ago, Virgin America began flying direct out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to the West Coast — specifically, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To announce their small-scale coup of local terminals dominated by American flights, Virgin invited horde of V- and not-so-VIPs for a barbecue lunch…
The previous Dallas Bike Plan public hearings have been jam-packed. No reason, then, to think it’ll be any different on January 20, when the city hosts another in the Dallas City Hall Flag Room. No times have yet been set; so far, these are the only details available:At the meeting,…
At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But mere weeks after Sir Richard Branson’s airline made its Willie Nelson-serenaded DFW bow, BusinessWeek wonders: Will it fly?Branson…
A little while ago, the Federal Transit Authority announced that it’s advancing around $182 million in New Starts grants to a handful of transit projects already under construction — and among the short stack of recipients is Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line (referred to in the feds’ release as…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards some raw, silent footage from KXAS-Channel 5 of an experimental plane that landed the hard way at Love Field earlier this afternoon. The video follows, and given the markings, odds are the pilot was shot down by Darth Vader — that, or “the landing…
When Cliffdwellers were rating and debating the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff had but one significant demand: “allow businesses to supplement the zoning requirements for car parking with bike parking,” per this morning’s post on BFOC’s website. Because, see, citywide there’s been this ongoing issue…
That’s according to TheStreet and Bundle, per this Wired recap this morning. And, yeah, they know: You’ve heard it before, no matter where you live. Nevertheless, they insist, this is more than just another your-city’s-drive-sucks survey:In this particular study, TheStreet and Bundle set out to determine how much people spend…
A couple of weeks back we posted that photo of the borrowed streetcar parked in downtown Fort Worth, which city officials said they’d put there to get folks excited about spending that $25 million Urban Circulator Grant. At which point, several Fort Worth-l-i-v-i-n Friends of Unfair Park cautioned: It’s just…
Dressed in full cowboy gear, complete with a Virgin America belt buckle, British business mogul Sir Richard Branson greeted representatives of what looked to be every media outlet within a hundred miles — and anyone else who could get their lunch hour off — at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport ’round…
Andrea — and, from the sound of it, every other DFW media member in need of a midweek field trip to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — is out on the tarmac at this very moment awaiting a chitchat with Richard Branson upon Virgin America’s DFW debut today. The wingding at…
This morning we received this photo and the accompanying press release, which announced: “Godless Ads Go on Ft. Worth Buses December 1.” That’s per the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, which says the campaign is “designed to raise awareness about people who don’t believe in a god.” Maybe you’ll recognize…
Seems like it was only Friday that Transport Workers Union Local 556 — which reps Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants — was sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole that note letting the officials know they most certainly did not appreciate being scanned and/or…
