Good Public Transit Don’t Mourn D-Link. Its Failure Offers More Proof Bus System Needs a Rehaul. By Peter Simek | 22 hours ago The free bus service will be phased out because of low ridership. But D-Link never really had a chance.
Transportation Remember How Bird Was Going to Build Bike Lanes for Its Scooters? Not Anymore. By Peter Simek | 3 days ago The company has quietly backed off an offer to give a portion of its revenue to its host cities to build bike lanes. Perhaps the cities should steal their idea.
Urbanism If Dallas Wants to Retain Its Competitive Edge, It Needs to Rethink Parking, Zoning By Peter Simek | 4 weeks ago A new report warns that Dallas is losing its "enormous edge" in affordability. Minneapolis offers an example for how the city may reverse this course.
Good Public Transit The Federal Grants That Built the Dallas Streetcar Are Now Funding Roads By Peter Simek | 1 month ago The Trump administration has changed up an Obama-era transportation initiative so that it funds less transit and more road projects. Which is hardly surprising.
Good Public Transit A Local Group Wants to Help DART Build a Better Bus Stop By Tim Rogers | 1 month ago There’s a simple way to protect riders from pollution: build the shelters backward.
Transportation Scooter Company Bird Proposes Donating Funds to Build More Bike Lanes By Peter Simek | 6 months ago Facing safety concerns, the scooter company wants to build more protective bike lanes in the cities where it operates. Which is a fantastic idea.
Gallery: Look At All These People Freak Out After the Dallas Cowboys Win A Playoff Game By Bret Redman
Good Public Transit An Argument for a New Approach to Transportation Funding in Texas By Peter Simek | 6 months ago With funding lagging most of their U.S. competitors, Texas' metro areas are looking for new ways to fund public transit
Urbanism What Is Excessive Parking Costing Cities? By Peter Simek | 6 months ago A new study attempts to quantify the glut of parking facilities in American cities.
Transportation I-30 Traffic Numbers Don’t Justify Highway Expansion By Peter Simek | 8 months ago There has been no significant traffic increase over the last 10 years on I-30. So why is TxDOT designing a bigger road?
Transportation Please, Dwaine Caraway, Don’t Ruin Dallas’ Bike Share Experiment By Peter Simek | 8 months ago The Mayor Pro-Tem wants Dallas to copy Chicago. But the two cities have nothing in common when it comes to bicycle infrastructure.
Transportation What the Latest Highway Fight Says About Future of the DFW Region By Peter Simek | 9 months ago Watching the debate over the widening of U.S. 380 is like looking back through time at the entire history of DFW's growth
Transportation Dallas’ Inability to Adopt Bikeshare May Have Worked Out as an Advantage By Peter Simek | 9 months ago Dockless bikes have shown latent demand for bicycle transit. Now, the city needs to step up with better bike infrastructure to meet that demand.
