Transportation Scooter Company Bird Proposes Donating Funds to Build More Bike Lanes By Peter Simek | 4 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.
Good Public Transit An Argument for a New Approach to Transportation Funding in Texas By Peter Simek | 4 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 | 4 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 | 6 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 | 7 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 | 7 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 | 7 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.
Good Public Transit Here’s More Evidence that Dallas Is Overdue for a Bus System Overhaul By Peter Simek | 8 months ago Houston is one of two cities in the nation that posted increased bus ridership in 2017, a result of its redesigned system.
Urbanism It Is Too Soon to Regulate Dallas’ Bike Share Companies By Peter Simek | 10 months ago Rather than creating clutter, the companies have simply—and somewhat unwittingly—revealed flaws in human behavior and urban design.
Transportation These UT Arlington Researchers Are Answering North Texas’ Toughest Questions By Peter Simek | 10 months ago The Institute of Urban Studies is putting up the numbers behind the region's biggest questions. For example: exactly how terrible is DART?
Transportation Is This the Future of Dallas’ Bike Share Experiment? By Peter Simek | 11 months ago As Dallas' fleet of rent-a-bikes expands, images from China show what may lay in the future for the city's bike share boom.
Transportation The Texas Bullet Train Has a Route, Moves One Step Closer to Construction By Peter Simek | 11 months ago Dallas will have a downtown terminal, but Houston is still finalizing its preferred high-speed rail station location.
