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Blogs
November 13, 2014
Here's TxDOT's Agreement with the Private Tollway Company That Has Eminent Domain Powers
In January, before many people were aware that a little-known corporation with the powers of eminent wanted to build private toll road through the rural communities east of Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard, the Texas Department of Transportation was promising in a written agreement to help the compan ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2014
NCTCOG Acknowledges Public Criticism, Drops Private Toll Road Idea
From the beginning, the private toll road that would run parallel to Interstate 30 seemed like a sure thing, no matter how many people who lived in the way who said they didn't want the road. "I think that maybe the ship has already sailed, and all these meetings out there, the public comments, it ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2014
Plans for Texas' First Private Toll Road Roll On -- and Right Over People in its Path
For the people who live in the countryside east of Lake Ray Hubbard and Lake Lavon, the appeal is in the quiet rural roads, dense trees, wild animals in the woods and bright stars shining in the night sky. To a Dallas company called the Texas Turnpike Corp., all that open space is a sign that not e ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2014
Dallas Councilwoman Vonciel Hill: I-345 Tear-down Would Be a Disaster
The Dallas Morning News' Brandon Formby spent days, maybe weeks, trying to chase down Councilwoman Vonciel Jones Hill to get her views on tearing down I-345, the short nub of freeway dividing Deep Ellum from downtown. She wouldn't talk, twice begging off because she was too busy, then just not retur ... More >>
News
March 14, 2013
Citizen Council PAC Paves Way for Trinity Toll Road
City council members grilled over whethere they support a boondoggle
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Oak Cliff Streetcar Poised to Get $30 Million, Connect to Convention Center and Bishop Arts
When Jason Roberts and his crew at the Oak Cliff Transit Authority first began trying to fund a streetcar line connect downtown with Oak Cliff, they asked the feds for around $48 million. They got only half of that. They've scraped together a bit more funding from various sources, but not enough to ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2012
Transportation Planners Are Walking Back Plans for Three-Person HOV Lanes
It was back in July that transportation planners with the North Central Texas of Governments first floated the idea of upping the threshold for vehicles using HOV lanes from two occupants to three. The proposal was then taken to the driving public to see what they thought. They didn't like it, at l ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2012
Cotton Belt Regional Rail Project Now Has Someone Who Wants to Pay For It
For a few years now, DART and its neighboring transit agencies have been drafting plans for the Cotton Belt Corridor project, a 62-mile passenger rail line that will, if things go according to plan, someday stretch Wylie to Fort Worth. The only thing standing in the way? Just the small task of findi ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
Think the Proposed Three-Person HOV Lanes Are Stupid? Now's Your Chance to Say So.
Last month it came to light that the Regional Transportation Council was mulling requiring three, rather than two, people per vehicle in order to use the region's HOV lanes. You could still use the special lanes driving solo, but you'd have to pay a toll that would vary based on traffic and time of ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Soon You Might Need Two Lifelike Dummies to Use DFW's HOV Lanes
Since they were put in place a decade or two ago, use of Dallas-area HOV lanes has required having only two people per vehicle. The idea was to encourage carpooling but not make the requirement so onerous that the lanes would sit empty. In that regard at least, the plan seems to have been successfu ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2012
That Dallas-Houston Bullet-Train Proposal Needs More Money Before it Can Start Costing Money
There was a lot of buzz back in May when a group led by the Central Japan Railway Co. and former Harris County Judge Robert Eckels announced plans to raise $10 billion in private funds to establish a bullet train linking Dallas and Houston. TxDOT, too, has been looking at high-speed rail, and is in ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
With $15 Mil From Feds, TxDOT Is Seeking Bids for Dallas-to-Houston High-Speed Rail Study
It's been quite some time since last we discussed the long-proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, which Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at the Texas Department of Transportation, called in April "definitely a priority" for TxDOT. This morning, s ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Why Did Council Just Approve $10.7 Million For New McDermott Bridge? Because "No One Remembers the Little Things We Do."
Photo by Sam MertenWe're not sure what the Margaret McDermott Bridge will look like, but this version's already been scrapped.The city council by a 13-1 vote this morning approved a $10.7 million contract with architect Santiago Calatrava to design pedestrian and bicycle components for the pr ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2008
Dallas's Council Reps Send Very, Very Mixed Signals Over Int'l Inland Port
I'm working on a new theory of life. I used to think the City of Dallas was obviously the big cheese in the region -- the wheel -- and that all of the little surrounding municipalities were sort of cheese wedges. Maybe I had it wrong. Maybe Dallas has cheese for brains, and all of the communities ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2008
Look, How Much Regional Government Do We Need, Anyway?
The Dallas Morning News this afternoon posted an editorial urging people not to worry about so-called new extra levels of government and taxation being created to make their lives hell. The editorial also castigated Chicken Little types who spread rumors of new extra levels. My bumper sticker, inci ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2008
Paying the Toll, One Road at a Time
When there’s a transportation crisis in this region, it’s a given that Michael Morris will make an appearance. And sure enough, with six projects scheduled for delay because of the Texas Department of Transportation's funding crisis, Morris, Director of Transportation for the North Central Texas ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2007
Selling You Down the River
In the real world, more people want the Trinity toll road referendum than they want Ron Natinsky on the city council. Check your numbers, holmes. The Dallas Morning News today offers one of its typical Trinity River toll road stories in which the paper reports one side of the issue as gospel and mak ... More >>
News
August 31, 2006
Eye Candy
It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.