In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds — $23 million, to be precise, courtesy Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds, otherwise known as TIGER…
Last month we noted that Dallas Area Rapid Transit has long has a policy in place prohibiting beer and wine ads on buses and light rail. Why? No real reason, other than previous boards didn’t much like the idea. But DART needs dough, which is why, over the course of…
Last month we noted that the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is considering selling ads for beer and wine on buses and light rail — which, right now, is prohibited by policy just because. After the jump you’ll find the board’s back-and-forth over that very subject, which could prove controversial;…
As it turns out, according to an article that just appeared on the Wall Street Journal’s website, life inside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport air traffic control towers — otherwise known as the Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, or TRACON — is sort of a cross between Airplane! and Pushing Tin…
One week ago today, the union representing Southwest Airlines’ flight attendants threatened to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after it became public that a pilot had taken to the airwaves to broadcast his … let’s say … dissatisfaction with the quality of the Love Field-based carrier’s…
A couple of weeks back, in his column for the paper version of Unfair Park, Jim wrote about Scott Griggs and Angela Hunt’s desire to get the Trinity River Corridor Project back on track with projects “done quickly, cheaply and on a human scale.” You know who’s also involved? Ding,…
A lifelong Friend of Unfair Park just called from the southbound lanes of the Dallas North Tollway wondering how in the hell did he miss the news that come Friday, the North Texas Tollway Authority’s jacking up rates, according to the flashing heads-up greeting motorists this morning. That’s understandable: The…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Back on March 25, a still-unidentified Southwest Airlines pilot was somewhere over the great state of Texas when he decided to use his open mike to review the Love Field-based carrier’s flight attendants. Said the fellow, all he could find on his route were “11 fucking over-the…
On the same day that Love Field-based Southwest Airlines announced its 40th anniversary sale featuring some one-way ducats for as low at $40, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport sends word that newbie Spirit Airlines is already expanding its service. Initially, the low-fare carrier was only flying to Fort Lauderdale and Las…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board’s meeting today, and top o’ the agenda is the FY 2012 Budget and Twenty-Year Financial Plan, which factors into this news brief concerning Fitch’s decision to downgrade DART’s sales tax revenue bonds. Says the rating agency, the small dip from AA to AA- “reflects…
One week ago today we got our first look at Joe Ayala and Larry Chen’s late-night shenanigans at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as documented in the short film Stuck, which, in short order, would become a national story because of security concerns raised by some (including Friend of Unfair Park…
You probably remember this: End of the day Tuesday we posted that video shot during the wee small hours of the morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in which West Coast photographers Joe Ayala and Larry Chen are having a cute, no-harm-no-foul home-alone moment at an American Airlines check-in desk,…
The tail end of the Mavs parade left the Dallas Convention Center moments ago; more to come from that traffic jam shortly. But till then, this just in from the folks overseeing the LBJ Freeway redo: The second — and final — wave of HOV lane closures is set to…
‘Round the same time I stumbled across the Kiddrae must-watch you’ll find below I also found “Stuck” by West Coast-based photographer Joe Ayala. As he explains, “While on our way home from Formula Drift Palm Beach, Larry Chen and I found ourselves stranded over night in the Dallas airport as…
Right now, Dallas Area Rapid Transit policy prohibits the sale of booze ads on its trains and buses for no reason other than earlier boards thought that’d just be a good idea. Or, as it was explained during a DART board meeting last month, its “predecessors determined that alcoholic beverages…
It’d be mighty hard to stay away from Mark Roberts’s Forest Lane Reunion scheduled to begin rolling down the road ’round 7 p.m. tomorrow. First, it’s about two miles from the house. And, I’m nothing if not a sucker for reliving the past. If only Lt. Col. Mike could make…
Ever wished you could take Dallas Area Rapid Transit to … oh … let’s say Tyler? Or Canton? Or Shreveport, even? Because, see, that’s the one-day-fingers-crossed dream shared by DART and North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority officials. Which is why DART president Gary Thomas, board chair Bill Velasco and…
At last, that long-awaited Union Station to Oak Cliff Dallas Streetcar Environmental Assessment is now available for your reading pleasure courtesy Dallas Area Rapid Transit. You’ll find the report itself after the jump; those wishing to drill deeper can peruse the myriad appendices here. But long story short, says Keith…
Dallas is all about the hike-n-bike these days, what with Complete Streets and Better Blocks and Bike Plans and Pedestrian Bridges and whatever else will help us ease on down, ease on down the road. Good thing too, since walking ’round Dallas — and Fort Worth and Arlington — can…
That LBJ Freeway overhaul we’ve been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesman for the LBJ Express: “We anticipate there is going to be…
Just couldn’t hold this till item till 4:20, so sorry. But I’d meant to mention last week that the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (or NORML) was staging its part of the World Wide Marijuana March on May 7 on the Dallas…
About a month back we looked at docs the Texas Department of Transportation submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration in the hopes of landing some federal money dough for that loooooong-discussed Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Houston high-speed rail line. Long story short: The state wanted $18 million so it could begin ID’ing possible…
