In North Texas and Elsewhere, Used Car Prices Are Probably Going to Keep Rising
Used car prices are still high after pandemic increase and the tax office is noticing the flood of new titles and registrations with two hour or more wait times
Used car prices are still high after pandemic increase and the tax office is noticing the flood of new titles and registrations with two hour or more wait times
A regional pilot shortage leads to cancellations and picketing pilots due to difficult working conditions and delayed contract negotiations
Some DART riders could see longer commutes this month as part of scheduled maintenance to the agency’s rail services.
It all started with an alarmingly detailed artistic portrayal of a phallus. The graffiti in question was scrawled on the side of a portable toilet at a North Dallas construction site off the path that will eventually become the Silver Line. Alongside the phallus was a message. Although it’s difficult…
Dallas is known for many things, like its music scene, Reunion Tower and an assassination. But its ease of public transportation hasn’t ever been something to write home about. To try to alleviate the transportation burden for people on the job hunt, the ride-hailing company Lyft is offering free rides…
Prosper and McKinney have found themselves on the opposite ends of a debate over a new highway expansion.
With flight cancellations hampering travel, Spirit Airlines employees say the company has repeatedly left them stranded without accommodation.
An American Muslim woman says she was told she couldn’t sit in an exit row because she doesn’t know English.
The affect control center employs about 380 air traffic controllers, and handles high-level air traffic in multiple states.
On Friday, organizers from the city and several nonprofits met with a dozen volunteers outside the Dallas Farmers Market. They were there to inaugurate the city’s newest civic enhancement: its “first-ever protected micro-mobility facility,” as it’s been referred to by planners. In other words, a bike lane — which now…
A new study quantifies what many DFW residents already know: DART service isn’t great. But the transportation agency launched a redesign project, which aims to improve the situation, at least for some.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has announced plans to expand GoPass, its smartphone ticketing platform, to Tulsa. It will mark the agency’s first such partnership outside North Texas. Mark Enoch, chairman of the agency’s public affairs committee, which reviewed the agreement Tuesday, called it a “great milestone.” The agency has sought to recoup…
Dallas is nowhere close to fulfilling an ambitious plan to create a citywide network of bicycle lanes. In 2011, the City Council adopted a plan to create 1,300 miles of bike routes, including bikes lanes, street markings and multipurpose trails, that would promote “wide-spread use of bicycles” in the car-centric…
The city is proposing implementing new restrictions and raising fees to address safety concerns about its “Dockless Mobility Program.” The program allows five companies — Bird, Jump, Lime, Ojo and Wheels — to blanket the city in scooters that can be picked up, rented by the minute and then dropped…
Before Dallas can build a new plan for its public transit infrastructure, it must decide what kind of system it wants: one that attracts the largest number of riders possible, or one that serves everyone in the city equally, a transit expert told a crowd of 200 people at a…
A typical DFW family spends more of its income on housing and transportation than those in most other major cities — including San Francisco and New York — according to a new report released by the NYC-based Citizen’s Budget Commission. Using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, researchers at…
Don’t get a ticket. Buses, light rail and the Trinity Railway Express are all free Tuesday night beginning at 6 p.m., thanks to MillerCoors. But you’ll need to keep your eyes on the clock after that midnight kiss. Buses and trains are operating on a normal weekday schedule. That means most…
Members of a labor union representing airline catering workers picketed outside Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, demanding better pay and affordable healthcare coverage. The demonstration was the latest in a series of protests held this year by the union representing workers at LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company…
The National Transportation Safety Board ended its nearly two-year investigation into Southwest Airlines flight 1380 on Tuesday with a recommendation that Boeing redesign the engine casing on one of its 737 models in order to prevent incidents like the one that killed a passenger and forced a crash landing in…
Two drivers for Irving Holdings, the Dallas transportation company that owns Yellow Cab, have filed suit, alleging that they worked unpaid overtime and sometimes earned less than minimum wage. Didyme Kalenga and Arnold Bankete, the two employees named in the lawsuit, both drove company-owned paratransit vans that served the elderly…
It’d been too long, we guess, since anyone had done anything truly stupid on the freeways that surround and knife through downtown Dallas. About 6 p.m. Saturday, according to media reports, a caravan of street racers stopped traffic on Woodall Rodgers Freeway just before the Klyde Warren Park underpass. They…
Fort Worth-based American Airlines tiptoed right through the dystopic tulips Tuesday, issuing a cheery press release about its newest locally available technology. Travelers flying on certain flights taking off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D can now board by having their face scanned, rather than going through the normal…