At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But mere weeks after Sir Richard Branson’s airline made its Willie Nelson-serenaded DFW bow, BusinessWeek wonders: Will it fly?Branson…
A little while ago, the Federal Transit Authority announced that it’s advancing around $182 million in New Starts grants to a handful of transit projects already under construction — and among the short stack of recipients is Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s Green Line (referred to in the feds’ release as…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards some raw, silent footage from KXAS-Channel 5 of an experimental plane that landed the hard way at Love Field earlier this afternoon. The video follows, and given the markings, odds are the pilot was shot down by Darth Vader — that, or “the landing…
When Cliffdwellers were rating and debating the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff had but one significant demand: “allow businesses to supplement the zoning requirements for car parking with bike parking,” per this morning’s post on BFOC’s website. Because, see, citywide there’s been this ongoing issue…
That’s according to TheStreet and Bundle, per this Wired recap this morning. And, yeah, they know: You’ve heard it before, no matter where you live. Nevertheless, they insist, this is more than just another your-city’s-drive-sucks survey:In this particular study, TheStreet and Bundle set out to determine how much people spend…
A couple of weeks back we posted that photo of the borrowed streetcar parked in downtown Fort Worth, which city officials said they’d put there to get folks excited about spending that $25 million Urban Circulator Grant. At which point, several Fort Worth-l-i-v-i-n Friends of Unfair Park cautioned: It’s just…
Dressed in full cowboy gear, complete with a Virgin America belt buckle, British business mogul Sir Richard Branson greeted representatives of what looked to be every media outlet within a hundred miles — and anyone else who could get their lunch hour off — at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport ’round…
Andrea — and, from the sound of it, every other DFW media member in need of a midweek field trip to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — is out on the tarmac at this very moment awaiting a chitchat with Richard Branson upon Virgin America’s DFW debut today. The wingding at…
This morning we received this photo and the accompanying press release, which announced: “Godless Ads Go on Ft. Worth Buses December 1.” That’s per the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, which says the campaign is “designed to raise awareness about people who don’t believe in a god.” Maybe you’ll recognize…
Seems like it was only Friday that Transport Workers Union Local 556 — which reps Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants — was sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole that note letting the officials know they most certainly did not appreciate being scanned and/or…
Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, sends word this morning likely to be hailed as good news for riders of the Trinity Railway Express: Starting December 6, the fare zone boundary is moving two miles west — from the West Irving Station in Dallas County to the CentrePort/DFW…
Southwest Airlines’s 9,400 flight attendants just sent word: They don’t wanna be scanned. And they don’t wanna be gate-raped. That’s the gist of the missive Transport Workers Union Local 556 President Thom McDaniel sent to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John J. Pistole, which you can…
Word o’ the day today on the Urban Dictionary: “gate rape.” As in: “The TSA airport screening procedure.” Perhaps some students in Cle Elum, Washington, will find it on their chalkboard this morning, following their teacher’s recent pass through DFW International Airport. Please turn to Page B1 of this morning’s…
Last week, during the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, chair Linda Koop dropped what appeared to be a bombshell: Fort Worth, she said, was going to return the $25 million Urban Circulator Grant it received in July for its Fort Worth Streetcar Loop, which she said wasn’t…
We’re but days away from the Grand Opening of the Green Line, which Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials have been sneak-peeking for local politicos and media members. But, really, why not ride it for yourself. Fast. And: Fun! Don’t even have to leave the house, even better…
I had something reasonably newsworthy with which to end the day. But it’ll have to wait till morning — I need one more confirmation. (How’s that for a tease?) So instead I’ll leave you with this just-posted ad for the DART’s Green Line, set to open all the way on…
Earlier this morning I came across this San Francisco TV report: “Texan to sing at BART station over World Series bet.” Said Texan is actually Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas, who made a bet with his BART counterpart that involved the loser going to the…
Writer Joe Queenan’s always had it out for Dallas. The paper version of Unfair Park has something to do what that. We ended his career as filmmaker. No matter. He never liked Dallas anyhow — not since November 22, 1963. Anyway. He writes for The Weekly Standard these days, among…
Short and sweet this Saturday, as the Transportation and Environment Committee’s streetcar update for Monday speaks for itself — which is to say, budget and time are tight, given, among other things, the constraints of the $23 mil in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds the feds forked over in…
After a lengthy closed-door meeting, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board voted 7-1 early this afternoon to terminate four leases related to businesses owned by concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, whose request for a temporary restraining order was granted yesterday at 5:07 p.m. by State District Judge Martin Hoffman. The board claims Aranza…
Longtime food-and-beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza requested a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit against the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board late this afternoon, stemming from a disagreement regarding approximately $279,000 the board claims he owes in back rent. While the TRO aims to halt the board’s vote tomorrow morning that…
Few weeks back we noted: TXU’s setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books’ Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of Best Cities for…
