Councilman West made the point during a Dallas City Council meeting that emergency services are overwhelmingly called to the very roads & intersections they demand to be wider & wider. It seems first responders would almost be out of a job if our streets actually reflected Vision Zero & NACTO.
If you’re pushing housing in lowrise n’hoods, eliminating useless sideyards is the unlock for the urban design everybody says they want.
In exchange for sideyards that no one uses, you get better units, lush interior courtyards, space for trees and play, higher density and lower energy use.
Some Dallas stuff: If the city of Dallas sells its city hall that it failed to maintain, the city will only be able to put forward 50% of the proceeds toward a new one because of a narrowly approved proposition funded by a right-wing megadonor that puts 50% of new revenue into police budgets. 1/
Thank God for small miracles.
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵
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Totally tongue in cheek but you have a point. I guess it would take the entire route to list all items in the social contract/etiquette that riders should be doing but some don't.
Here is my op-ed on the importance of 1) downtown and 2) a healthy downtown www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
I know DART means well but shouldn’t the PSA say “the first step in preventing crime is not committing crime” instead of awareness?
Experienced one of those awesome transit moments where I didn't get off at my usual train stop because my bike route is closed for road construction and one of the other regular riders asked if I was ok. We've never talked before but we see each other every day. Proximity breeds community. #DART
It's one of those days I feel like procrastinating.
To make it less wasteful, here is a short thread about the technological story behind the workhorse of the Italian postwar building boom:
The "solaio in laterocemento."
And why it's an excellent example of light prefab and discrete innovation.
"It should also start taxing these empty spaces based on the true value of the land they occupy... Changing tax rates on vacant land would encourage building on those lots, bringing in much-needed revenue that could be put toward downtown infrastructure improvements." GEORGISM FOR THE WIN!!!
By 2030 Paris will have removed 70,000 parking spaces and replaced them with this…
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
As I mentioned to somebody last night, saving downtown is a real estate equation. We have built infrastructure that devalued the most valuable real estate. There is no escaping that until you change the infrastructure.
When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
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Dallas: A great case study in how the overhyping of "microtransit" is encouraging leaders to destroy useful transit networks.
That sounds like more of a "last mile" problem that would be better solved by more frequent buses, better interconnected bike lanes and sidewalks. With the exception of downtown where they don't have signal priority, the loading/unloading at stations are what slow the trains down.
Why don't we dredge it & dump all the tailings in all the northern suburbs & extort them to have the funds to a. dredge the lake b. remove & properly dispose of it c. force them to update their silt & pollution mitigation within their own boundaries so it doesn't continue to be Dallas' problem?
I grew up in Hopkins County, TX and it has a RUCC code of 6.
AND TWO MORE AT THE NEXT STOP!
And two more got on at the next stop!
There are 5 people with bikes and scooters on my DART train. We need more bike accommodations on these trains! @ridewithdata.org
Thanks for the clarification!
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this basically how almost every NA light rail system works? As a rider of DART, the train is a street running tram in downtown and a dedicated ROW along old freight lines outside the highway loop with stops in surrounding cities.
If Dallas had the political will to keep us safe, the city should store all the impounded cars at Hensley Field instead of redeveloping it. Then we could redevelop all the space formerly taken up by serving those cars into housing inside Loop 12 instead of a far flung garden city.
I'm not an entomologist or into parasitology so I couldn't say for certain. But I do know that Oakland has managed to lose all of their major league teams in the last 5 years, and Dallas is on track to lose their last two teams in the next 6 years.
We are doomed to be the Oakland of Texas.
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