When we’re at cocktail parties having conversations we think are smart or we’re posting thoughts to social media we think are insightful, most of us scoff at the mere mention of vehicle vanity license plates. Vanity plates are lame attempts at humor, desperate pleas for attention or a combination of…
Dallas-Fort Worth area drivers spend more than 70 hours every year on the road due to rush hour traffic, according to a report by the car-shopping app CoPilot.
Last week, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines made the sort of national headlines no airline wants to make. It’s fair to think that goes double for the more than 1 million travelers affected by last week’s mass flight cancellations. A typical flight schedule for the airline resumed on Friday, Dec. 30, following…
On Tuesday morning, you didn’t have to look hard to see plenty of signs that things had not been going well for a certain segment of holiday travelers. Even if one had somehow missed seeing the headlines and social media posts generated by Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of over 2,800 flights…
The hospital has suggested it will provide its own shuttles for employees, but patients may have to walk a quarter mile to the nearest mode of public transit.
Texas school buses are having long delays, possibly due to a bus driver shortage
Dallas is drawing up plans to make the city more bike friendly, and is hoping for the public participation in the process
Used car prices are still high after pandemic increase and the tax office is noticing the flood of new titles and registrations with two hour or more wait times
A regional pilot shortage leads to cancellations and picketing pilots due to difficult working conditions and delayed contract negotiations
Some DART riders could see longer commutes this month as part of scheduled maintenance to the agency’s rail services.
It all started with an alarmingly detailed artistic portrayal of a phallus. The graffiti in question was scrawled on the side of a portable toilet at a North Dallas construction site off the path that will eventually become the Silver Line. Alongside the phallus was a message. Although it’s difficult…
Dallas is known for many things, like its music scene, Reunion Tower and an assassination. But its ease of public transportation hasn’t ever been something to write home about. To try to alleviate the transportation burden for people on the job hunt, the ride-hailing company Lyft is offering free rides…
Prosper and McKinney have found themselves on the opposite ends of a debate over a new highway expansion.
With flight cancellations hampering travel, Spirit Airlines employees say the company has repeatedly left them stranded without accommodation.
An American Muslim woman says she was told she couldn’t sit in an exit row because she doesn’t know English.
The affect control center employs about 380 air traffic controllers, and handles high-level air traffic in multiple states.
On Friday, organizers from the city and several nonprofits met with a dozen volunteers outside the Dallas Farmers Market. They were there to inaugurate the city’s newest civic enhancement: its “first-ever protected micro-mobility facility,” as it’s been referred to by planners. In other words, a bike lane — which now…
A new study quantifies what many DFW residents already know: DART service isn’t great. But the transportation agency launched a redesign project, which aims to improve the situation, at least for some.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has announced plans to expand GoPass, its smartphone ticketing platform, to Tulsa. It will mark the agency’s first such partnership outside North Texas. Mark Enoch, chairman of the agency’s public affairs committee, which reviewed the agreement Tuesday, called it a “great milestone.” The agency has sought to recoup…
Dallas is nowhere close to fulfilling an ambitious plan to create a citywide network of bicycle lanes. In 2011, the City Council adopted a plan to create 1,300 miles of bike routes, including bikes lanes, street markings and multipurpose trails, that would promote “wide-spread use of bicycles” in the car-centric…
The city is proposing implementing new restrictions and raising fees to address safety concerns about its “Dockless Mobility Program.” The program allows five companies — Bird, Jump, Lime, Ojo and Wheels — to blanket the city in scooters that can be picked up, rented by the minute and then dropped…
Before Dallas can build a new plan for its public transit infrastructure, it must decide what kind of system it wants: one that attracts the largest number of riders possible, or one that serves everyone in the city equally, a transit expert told a crowd of 200 people at a…
