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…
Electric scooters whizzing down the street, haphazardly dropped on street corners, and abandoned in parking lots and parks have become ubiquitous sights in Dallas. Last week, Dallas police announced that officers will begin enforcing city ordinances regulating scooter use in entertainment districts and downtown. “The overall goal is so nobody…
Count this among the many, many times when discretion would’ve been the better part of valor. At about five minutes to 9 a.m. Monday, according to the time stamp on a dash cam video uploaded to YouTube, commuters heading north out of downtown Dallas on I-35 saw something they had…
In the years before smartphones, self-driving cars and virtual reality headsets, one of the first major technological advances U.S. households got their hands on was, of course, the Roomba. The roundish dust-sucking robots were surely a sign of the future way back in 2002, but by now the novelty of…
Southwest Airlines is suspending flights aboard the Boeing 737 Max 8 through Aug. 5, the Dallas-based airline announced last week. Aviation officials grounded the aircraft in March after two of the jets crashed in the last year — in October, when a Lion Air flight crashed into the Java Sea…
Just when you thought Dallas couldn’t possibly use another scooter on its streets, Lyft is getting in on the game, the Uber competitor plans to announce later today. The company’s dockless scooters will be available throughout the city, both for on-demand riding and through the company’s ride-hailing app, which will…
There are few worse feelings for a North Texas transit commuter than the one that often hits just as they step off of one of DART’s climate-controlled light-rail cars and onto the platform at one of the agency’s more far-flung train stations: “How fricking long is it going to be…
What are we gonna build? “A wall!” Who’s gonna pay for it? “Mexi … er, TxDOT!” Residents in Lake Highlands are getting some long-sought peace and quiet, thanks to the construction of a giant, gaudy wall. Not the one at the heart of President Donald Trump’s controversial national emergency, but…
State Rep. Matt Krause rolled out a new plan Tuesday to take on one of Texas conservatives’ long-standing bugaboos, announcing a bill he’s calling the “Toll Payer Protection Act.” The bill, the Fort Worth Republican says, is intended to get local communities involved in decisions to build toll roads or…
North Texas remains extremely dangerous for pedestrians even as Dallas takes steps to modernize its thoroughfares, according to the 2019 version of Smart Growth America’s Dangerous By Design report. According to the study, 1,037 pedestrians died after being struck by cars in DFW between 2008 and 2017. Put another way, that’s 1.49…
As recently as Friday afternoon, the TEXRail, Trinity Metro’s new rail project, was supposed to start taking paying customers from Fort Worth and other points west of DFW Airport to the hub’s Terminal B on Saturday. The Tarrant County transit agency was practically counting down the hours on its social…
If you’re willing to head home a little before last call, Coors Light and Dallas Area Rapid Transit are teaming up on New Year’s Eve to give everyone in DART’s service area a free ride home. Starting at 6 p.m. Dec. 31 and running through the end of service early…
Workers at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport discovered a cache of ice-age era fossils earlier this month, airport officials announced Tuesday afternoon. A bison thigh bone and a tooth from a woolly mammoth are the first of their kind found at the airport. Officials aren’t disclosing where they were discovered “in the…
Ah, the weekend. Your time to get away from workaday drudgery, head out into the scorching heat and pay $14 for two eggs and toast because you forgot you’d rather sleep than go out to brunch. They aren’t perfect, especially in North Texas’ midsummer blast furnace, but Saturdays and Sundays…
Less than a week after its biggest bike-share competitor, ofo, announced that it’s abandoning the Dallas market, Lime, the company behind all the green bikes and scooters in Dallas, says its business in the city is thriving. Over the seven months since the company last released ridership statistics in the…
Less than a day after laying off 70 percent of its U.S.-based employees, dockless bike rental company ofo confirmed to the Dallas Observer on Thursday that it is pulling out of Dallas after less than a year in the city. The China-based company behind the thousands of yellow bikes that have…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport makes one of the worst chores in the world easy. Drivers doing their friendly or familial duty and picking up flyers can drive onto airport property, follow the signs to the appropriate gate and idle at the curb until their passenger shows up. Starting Sept. 8,…
Whether you’re a young couple breezing through a Design District apartment complex or Observer freelancer Danny Gallagher acting on a whim, there’s a better than zero chance that when presented with cheap, two-wheeled motorized transportation on demand, you’ve given in. There’s also a better than zero chance that once you’ve begun…
