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…
Hence, this pic of the bike-and-hike-path construction site the council member Plixi’d early this morning. That is all. So, see you at the Dallas Bike Plan meeting tonight? Looks like I’m covering. Everyone else’ll be at the going-late Best of Dallas (on stands today!) wingding. This job is awesome…
And where, exactly, will TXU install these outlets? Dunno yet. I asked Sophia Stoller, TXU spokesperson, if she can provide the list following this morning’s announcement, released in advance of a 5 p.m. press conference at the Automotive Building at Fair Park. Says Stoller, “We’re working with both of the…
On Tuesday we got our sneak peek at Central Japan Railway Company’s presentation to Houston transportation officials intended to get ’em revved up about high-speed rail linking Dallas and Houston (and points in between). This morning, Culturemap Houston provides this lengthy follow-up: interviews with some of the Houston officials in…
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who forwarded along this just-released report from TRIP, a D.C.-based transportation research group: Hold the Wheel Steady: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother. Says the study, which paints a grim picture of the bumpy road ahead, out of…
Back to that Houston-to-Dallas bullet train for a second …Erik Noriega, manager of communications for the Greater Houston Partnership, was kind enough to send me Central Japan Railway Company’s PowerPoint referred to below. Says Noriega, GHP just hosted Monday’s event, which was attended, for the most part, by Harris County…
About a year ago there was some big back-and-forthing over the viability of a high-speed rail connecting Dallas and Houston. But since then, we’ve heard next to nothing. Except: Our sister paper in Houston directs our attention this morning to news of a Monday-morning meeting during which Yoshiyuki Kasai, the…
Truth told I wasn’t aware the state’s vehicle registration sticker was so hideous and hard-to-read. But it is. It is! Hence the new-and-improved version just debuted in Arlington at the Tarrant County tax office, where Texas Department of Motor Vehicles higher-ups gathered to birth with much pride and pomp the…
Back in May, you may recall, JP Morgan analyst Jamie Baker kinda gave it to American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey during a first-quarter earnings conference call. Said Baker to Arpey, following a discussion of dwindling earnings and a vague “flight plan” for the future, “I guess you just don’t sound…
Back in March, you may recall, cab drivers at Love Field were none too pleased with the city council’s decision to give compressed natural gas-powered taxis front-o’-the-line privileges at the airport. A month later, the Association of Taxicab Operators went to federal court to block the city from implanting the…
It’s no secret the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are “facing some financial challenges,” as AT&TPAC chair Howard Hallam told Unfair Park a few weeks ago, following the resignation of president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen. Not long after Nerenhausen turned in his adios so too did…
On an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that aired, oh, about a year ago, Larry David lectured an airplane seatmate about what not to wear on a flight. “A little traveling tip: Try not to wear shorts. Not all that attractive to look at for five hours.” Which I mention…
On June 22, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s higher-ups sent the bad news: Three projects had been derailed by that $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts: the section of the Orange Line that’s supposed to run from Irving to Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Blue Line extension from…
On the other side is the full announcement from Dallas/Fort International Airport concerning Virgin America’s decision to go west, young man: On December 1, the just-turned-3-year-old carrier considered by many to be the Best Domestic Airline will start flying from DFW to Los Angeles twice a day; five days later,…
