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…
High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin’s Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort…
Just as Dallas’ skirmish over the bike-share wave of 2017 seems to be winding down, a new front is opening up in the city’s ongoing quest to prove that if you squint and tilt your head just right, you can actually maybe get by in Dallas without a car —…
Late Tuesday afternoon, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly refused to guess at what caused an engine on one of his airline’s jets to explode Tuesday morning, shattering one of a Dallas-bound plane’s windows and killing an Albuquerque woman. Jennifer Riordan, a 52-year-old bank vice president, is the first passenger to die…
A plane headed to Dallas Love Field from New York City’s Laguardia Airport made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after an engine on the aircraft blew out, breaking one of the plane’s windows and injuring a passenger. Marty Martinez, the founder and CEO of Dallas-based digital marketing agency…
A Dallas firefighter and a New York journalist with ties to North Texas died Sunday night when a helicopter in which they were taking a tour of the city crashed into the East River. A tourist from Argentina and two employees of Liberty Helicopters, the company running the tour, also…
A Phoenix-to-Dallas Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in New Mexico late Sunday night after the plane’s cabin began to fill with smoke. The Albuquerque Fire Department took two people to the hospital with minor injuries after 140 people were forced to either slide down the plane’s emergency slides…
For Eric Burton, the sidewalks of his Bryan Place neighborhood have always been a hazard. Burton, left blind by a degenerative eye condition, struggles daily with paths that are uneven, buckled and cracked, but he’s learned to deal with it. Over the past seven months, however, a new obstacle has…
