Can Dallas County Cash In on the Volkswagen Scandal?

The Volkswagen emissions scandal is not quite two weeks old, and it’s already spurred lawsuits from dozens of angry car buyers. The first such suit in Dallas was filed Monday, though it surely won’t be the last. All or most of these early cases revolve around a straightforward allegation of fraud. Customers…

Uber Caves in Fight With Drivers

It only took Dallas’ UberBlack drivers a long weekend to get back their right to pick up only passengers willing to pay for their more expensive service. Late Monday night, following four days of protests and calls for strikes, Uber informed drivers through an email that they could opt out…

Uber to Drivers: Pick Up Cheaper Fares or Else

Until Friday, Uber in Dallas was essentially two different services. There was UberBlack — and its cousins UberSUV and UberSelect — the service that started everything for Uber. UberBlack began as a way to keep town car drivers who weren’t busy, busy. Drivers between gigs could switch the app on…

New Plan to Plan Trinity Park Might Actually Be OK

Tuesday, Schutze told you all about why we should be scared because Dallas is taking $1 million in rich-people money from the Trinity Trust to pay for yet another “charrette” to come up with a plan for a park between the Trinity River levees. Letting rich people fund park planning…

New Freeway Opens. Dallas Gets Excited.

Want to actually, you know, drive on LBJ rather than just sitting on it? Now you can, but it’ll cost you. The TEXpress lanes are open. The new sunken pay lanes on Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway — we’ll begrudgingly admit — are a civil engineering marvel. They’ll also generate quite…

Downtown Dallas Rail Skirmish Likely Over Before It Got Started

The battle over the placement of DART”s second rail line through downtown doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. At a meeting last week of the Greater Dallas Planning Council and Urban Land Institute, DART indicated that it was wholeheartedly behind some version of the Young Street alignment for the…