Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don’t wanna be scanned. And they don’t wanna be gate-raped. That’s the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole, which you can…
Word o’ the day today on the Urban Dictionary: “gate rape.” As in: “The TSA airport screening procedure.” Perhaps some students in Cle Elum, Washington, will find it on their chalkboard this morning, following their teacher’s recent pass through DFW International Airport. Please turn to Page B1 of this morning’s…
Last week, during the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, chair Linda Koop dropped what appeared to be a bombshell: Fort Worth, she said, was going to return the $25 million Urban Circulator Grant it received in July for its Fort Worth Streetcar Loop, which she said wasn’t…
We’re but days away from the Grand Opening of the Green Line, which Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials have been sneak-peeking for local politicos and media members. But, really, why not ride it for yourself. Fast. And: Fun! Don’t even have to leave the house, even better…
I had something reasonably newsworthy with which to end the day. But it’ll have to wait till morning — I need one more confirmation. (How’s that for a tease?) So instead I’ll leave you with this just-posted ad for the DART’s Green Line, set to open all the way on…
Earlier this morning I came across this San Francisco TV report: “Texan to sing at BART station over World Series bet.” Said Texan is actually Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas, who made a bet with his BART counterpart that involved the loser going to the…
Writer Joe Queenan’s always had it out for Dallas. The paper version of Unfair Park has something to do what that. We ended his career as filmmaker. No matter. He never liked Dallas anyhow — not since November 22, 1963. Anyway. He writes for The Weekly Standard these days, among…
Short and sweet this Saturday, as the Transportation and Environment Committee’s streetcar update for Monday speaks for itself — which is to say, budget and time are tight, given, among other things, the constraints of the $23 mil in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds the feds forked over in…
After a lengthy closed-door meeting, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board voted 7-1 early this afternoon to terminate four leases related to businesses owned by concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, whose request for a temporary restraining order was granted yesterday at 5:07 p.m. by State District Judge Martin Hoffman. The board claims Aranza…
Longtime food-and-beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza requested a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit against the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board late this afternoon, stemming from a disagreement regarding approximately $279,000 the board claims he owes in back rent. While the TRO aims to halt the board’s vote tomorrow morning that…
Few weeks back we noted: TXU’s setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books’ Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of Best Cities for…
In about two months, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hopes to open the Royal Lane station along the expanded Green Line. Not far from the site, on Rodney Lane, sits Central Hardwood, a massive lumber warehouse that sits on property owned by the Wilber Family Limited Partnership. And in legal docs…
Dallas City Hall sends word this morning: When you’re next at Love Field and don’t see Waldine Tauch’s The Texas Ranger of 1960 statue keeping watch over the terminal lobby, don’t fret. The Ranger, who took his place in 1961 courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wyatt and stands above the…
It’s been about a year now since the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles introduced the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, which still provides endless hours of entertainment as you attempt to see which dirty words you can slip through. (Side note: After typing that sentence, I went off to do…
Speaking of the need for Complete Streets …On Sunday morning, Angela Hunt wrote on her website:Last week, I met with city staff and Friends of the Katy Trail board members to discuss ways to make the trail safer in response to Lauren Huddleston’s tragic death. We will have a plan…
This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park who lives in Austin but has come home for work sends in this disgruntled missive:I usually work and live in Austin. I ride my bike to work there frequently, and I’ve never once had an issue with a driver. I’ve worked in Dallas…
At right, that’s Amtrak’s Texas Eagle — or, at least, the coach car and first-class sleeping car that pulled into the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park yesterday. It’s part of what the museum calls “its long-standing partnership with Amtrak to re-introduce the benefits of rail travel to…
Click to embiggen the chart that explains the reasons Dallasites hop on a bicycle.Above, that’s another page outta the Dallas Bike Plan online survey to which I referred earlier this week. This one answers the question: “What was the purpose of your last bicycle trip?” And while I’d like to…
Let’s be honest: Even if you embiggen this you won’t be able to read the proposed downtown bike plan. It’s ginormous.Whilst, below, some of you debate who’s more dangerous — drivers or cyclists or bears, oh my — this just in from Dallas City Hall: The maps showing the proposed…
Some time after 6:30 this evening, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will approve the $1,256,451,080 FY2011 budget and the Twenty-Year Financial Plan prompted by the sales-tax shortfall — “The Lost Decade,” for those with short-term memory loss. But let’s dig deeper into the DART meeting agenda for today –…
For those who like to plan ahead (or for those of us who need a few weeks to, oh, I dunno, stop smoking and pump up their tires and generally reconsider several other unhealthy life choices), this heads-up: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff this morning released the details for Cyclesomatic 2010,…
Sunandan Subramaniam/AirNet.comI live in the Love Field flight path — have all my life. So, you say, there’s more noise than usual coming from the airport? OK, then. Me, I can’t tell. But Angela Hunt has one explanation: construction on Runway 13R-31L, which runs parallel to Denton Drive. It was…
