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Traffic, taxes, tolls and transit — if any of those issues are on your mind lately, you aren’t alone. Especially not in the Dallas area, where developments in each of those areas are happening so...
View ArticleHOV lanes again in the headlines
WFAA Channel 8 last night reported the Texas Department of Transportation has begun a safety review of the HOV lanes on Central Expressway. The lanes have seen steady traffic growth since they opened...
View ArticleKeep up on suburban happenings...
Happy Friday all. We’re always on the lookout for good sources of information on transportation… Here’s a well-updated, opinion-flecked blog called The Collin County Observer that you may want to...
View ArticleSpeaking of good transpo links...
…Here’s another good site. This one, called Toll Roads News and based in Maryland, is devoted specifically to news on — you guessed it — the toll road front. Given the constant toll road activity in...
View ArticleOne man's sprawl, another's economic development...
Our colleague Ed Housewright has a story today that details an emerging political dispute about the future Dallas North Tollway route in Collin and Denton counties… Dispute aside, the article...
View ArticleDART gets, um, stimulated...
DART is receiving some $61 million from the federal economic stimulus package to help build the Orange Line light-rail extension. The announcement came earlier this month, but DART talks about the...
View ArticleCarpooling controversy continues...
WFAA Channel 8 recently reported that engineers at Texas’s Department of Transportation have been feeling the heat for problems with the HOV lanes on Central Expressway. Well, TxDOT is firing back...
View ArticleRegional rail bill passes Senate committee...
This dispatch just in from Michael Lindenberger in Austin: By a tally of 7-2, the state Senate’s powerful Transportation Committee approved a bill that would allow voters in the D-FW, Austin, San...
View ArticleMore stimuli announced: Woodall Rodgers Park
The trickling down of the federal stimulus package continues. The Woodall Rodgers Park project in Dallas is receiving a nearly $17 million infusion of federal cash. The 5-acre, multimillion dollar...
View ArticleThe project formerly known as the Grapevine Funnel
This week, the Texas Department of Transportation announced $1 billion to help reconstruct a cluster of chronically-jammed highway interchanges and other roads (mostly Highways 114 and 121) north of...
View ArticleTo build rail or not to build rail...
In case you missed this over the weekend, our colleague Ed Housewright columnized about the simmering divide in Collin County over legislation for a future North Texas rail system. Sounds like inside...
View ArticleLondon calls for DART...
DART has won an award at the fifth-annual MetroRail conference, a transit industry function taking place in London. The news release: “Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is being recognized the best...
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Poor decision-making meets HOV lanes...
Here’s a photo of a motorcycle that, on Sunday, apparently tried to slide into the HOV lanes on Central Expressway by illegally shooting through the pylons. The photo is from Plano police via the...
View Article"Walkable" communities in car-loving Texas...
Happy Friday all. I was cleaning out the email today when I came across a DART news release from last week talking about pedestrian-friendly, or “walkable,” communities that revolve around transit....
View ArticleWhich dots to connect?
Good rainy Friday, Constant Readers. It’s been a busy week for us all. If you haven’t had a chance to read Michael Lindenberger’s discussion on high-speed rail from earlier this week, I’d recommend...
View ArticleAustin versus Collin, Round 2?
As lawmakers discuss the local option transit tax bill in Austin, a vocal segment of Collin County Republicans continues to take shots at the proposal. Ideological skirmishes about the bill came to a...
View ArticleOne step back, two steps forward on the PGBT?
The North Texas Tollway Authority today announced it will begin reconfiguring the tolls on the ramps of the Bush Turnpike. The short version: Cash lanes are being moved temporarily to the lefthand...
View ArticleTranspo leaders: We need more, um, money...
Good Friday all. Hope your week has been a good one. A new transportation industry report is out today underscoring the need for more funding. (Gee, haven’t heard that one before.) This one comes from...
View ArticleTranspo officials on swine flu: You're safe.
Following up on Rodger Jones’s earlier entry on swine flu, the American Public Transportation Association has put out a news release declaring transit to be “safe.” For the full news release, follow...
View ArticleCalling all train geeks...
For those of you whose love of trains goes beyond the everyday, you may want to check out festivities marking “National Train Day” this Saturday. Part transit advocacy push and part fan fest for train...
View ArticleTxDOT: For goodness sake! Wear your seatbelt...
It’s that time of year, when authorities emphasize seatbelt use as part of the “Click It or Ticket” campaign. This year’s twist: TxDOT is targeting young drivers, who are much less likely to wear...
View Article121? SH 121? State Highway 121? The Rayburn?
Folks, we thought we’d try something interactive today on the transpo blog. The North Texas Tollway Authority recently dedicated State Highway 121 last week under its new moniker, the Sam Rayburn...
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DART: More Red Line parking opening soon
Folks, we’ve gotten an update from DART about extra parking spaces being built along … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleRegion mulling more lane restrictions on trucks
The North Central Texas Council of Governments tells us that the state is seeking comments on its plan to expand highway lane restrictions on semi trucks. Transportation officials have considered the...
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