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Dallas Forces New Route for Bullet Train to Fort Worth

Matt Goodman — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:12:30 +0000

The Dallas City Council has now become the switchman and will decide how (and whether) a high-speed train will run from here to Fort Worth. As expected, the entity responsible for planning a bullet train to Fort Worth unveiled Thursday an alternate route that lays tracks just west of downtown Dallas. The elevated rail line … Continued

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Is Plano Going to War With DART?

Matt Goodman — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:51:03 +0000

On Monday night, the Plano City Council unanimously approved a resolution in support of reducing its contribution to Dallas Area Rapid Transit by 25 percent. This does not mean that Plano can now withhold a quarter of its 1-cent sales tax allocation to the transit agency, which its voters directed the city to pay upon … Continued

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Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 51

Matt Goodman — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:52:36 +0000

Editor’s Note: The below was updated on 5/8 with comment from the city of Dallas. Hi-Line Drive is an odd little circulator through the Design District, four lanes with wide sidewalks and a wider median that guides cars and pedestrians past shopping centers, restaurants, apartments, and a hotel. Its median will soon be a key … Continued

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In Dallas, Even the Sidewalks Are for Sale

Matt Goodman — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:54:34 +0000

The city of Dallas once again wants to monetize its sidewalks. Later today, the Dallas City Council will be briefed on a plan to enter into a contract in June with a company that will plant interactive digital kiosks in downtown and other neighborhoods, likely on sidewalks. The vendor would make money from advertising and … Continued

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Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 50

Matt Goodman — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:32:13 +0000

This image comes courtesy a perambulating FrontBurnervian who found a mind-boggling scene in Uptown, which is supposedly the city’s most walkable neighborhood. Let’s walk through this one. The full-flavor image is below. The construction eats up the sidewalk on McKinney Avenue, just before Fairmount Street. But! We’ve got scaffolding. Terrific. Keep the people walking. But … Continued

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In Dallas, the Argument Over Single-Family Zoning Heats Up

Matt Goodman — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:23:45 +0000

Among the Dallas City Council, it will be difficult to even discuss adding light density—duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes—to neighborhoods that presently allow only single-family homes. A Tuesday morning meeting about researching the matter was more pugilistic than instructive, as a majority of the Council’s housing committee sought to quash even the possibility of adjusting the … Continued

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Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 49

Bethany Erickson — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:32:16 +0000

We’re almost to the 50th installment of this series, and our 49th entry comes from the Cedars neighborhood just south of downtown. A resident who uses a wheelchair told us that the city finally updated the Cedars sidewalks on South Akard from Griffin to Corinth streets. Those updates included Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps … Continued

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Is Dallas Housing About to Become More Like Austin—or Houston?

Matt Goodman — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:36:28 +0000

Five members of the Dallas City Council want the city to research changing its development code to make it possible to build more housing units on lots that presently allow only single-family homes. Councilman Chad West, of North Oak Cliff, sent a memo to the mayor on Wednesday that directs city staff to investigate … Continued

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Moves to Tweak Scooter Rules Fall Flat With Council Transportation Committee

Bethany Erickson — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:58:54 +0000

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, the proverb goes, and that is especially true when it comes to the city managing electric scooters. In the spring, the Dallas City Council approved a second attempt to introduce scooters to the city, establishing limits on how many scooters would be deployed, where … Continued

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Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 48

Matt Goodman — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:20:00 +0000

This little corner of the website has been quiet for some time—email me if you encounter infrastructure or construction or anything else that makes it a pain to walk—but that doesn’t mean the problems are fixed. The photo above is at Ervay and Federal streets in the downtown of the ninth largest city in America. … Continued

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What is the Economic Cost of Urban Heat in Dallas?

Brandon J. Call — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:14:58 +0000

When the inevitable heatwaves arrive in Dallas, community discussions around the need to mitigate our urban heat island effect and expand our tree canopy coverage arrive with it. For good reason too, whether it’s studies such as the EPA’s 2017 urban heat island study for Dallas, the city’s 2020 Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan … Continued

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Oak Cliff’s Five Mile Creek Trail Project Gets $6.5 Million Boost from Federal Grant

Matt Goodman — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:24:47 +0000

The federal government has awarded the city of Dallas a $6.5 million grant to finish designing and engineering the remainder of the Five Mile Creek trail from U.S. 67 into the Trinity Forest through southern Oak Cliff. The money comes from President Joe Biden’s discretionary RAISE (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) grant program, … Continued

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