Good Public Transit DART Board Gets First Look at Brutal COVID-19 Budget Blow By Peter Simek | 3 weeks ago The sharp decline in sales tax may throw many of the transit agency’s future plans in limbo
Urbanism 20-Minute Neighborhoods Could Solve Many of Dallas’ Urban Problems By Peter Simek | 3 months ago Cities around the world are trying to adopt new measures to ensure that everything their residents need is available within a 20-minute walk or bike
Transit Oriented Development Dallas Finally Seeks to Take Active Role In Transit-Oriented Development By Peter Simek | 2 months ago The city will study what land use policies and financial incentives are best suited to help realize one of DART's long-promised benefits
Good Public Transit Yet Another Report Highlights DART’s Poor Quality Transit By Peter Simek | 3 months ago DART users spend over 200 hours per year commuting than drivers. No wonder few use it.
Good Public Transit In Overhauling Its Bus System, Dallas Faces a Much Different Challenge Than Houston By Peter Simek | 4 months ago At The Death and Life of Dallas Transit symposium, DART’s new bus consultant offered measured hope for a new era in the history of Dallas public transit.
Urbanism You Will Never Believe How Large the United States’ Free Parking Subsidy Is By Peter Simek | 4 months ago When you look at car travel by the numbers--all the numbers--it doesn't make much sense
Transportation Governor Abbott Says Texas Is Finished Building Highways By Peter Simek | 5 months ago In a San Antonio speech, Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas may be experiencing its "last major build-out of roads.” Has the state changed its tune on transportation?
Urban Design What Will It Take for Dallas’ Vision Zero Plan to Work? By Peter Simek | 5 months ago Vision Zero Plans haven't worked as well as many have hoped. That's because safe streets are about more than urban design.
Transportation In Response to Push for Workers Rights, Uber Opens the Door to More Discrimination By Peter Simek | 6 months ago The ride-share company, which will move a portion of its corporate offices to Dallas, struggles to walk a fine line between convenience and discrimination
Transportation Woodall Rodgers Freeway Remains Dallas’ Most Congested Road By Peter Simek | 6 months ago Annual roadway congestion ranking by Texas A&M Transportation Institute underscores inability to solve traffic with road expansion
Transportation Texas Wants to Eliminate Traffic Deaths By 2050. Is It Possible? By Peter Simek | 6 months ago As other cities and states have found, making streets safer requires more than just safety spending
Good Public Transit How to Fix Public Transit: A Case Study By Peter Simek | 6 months ago Seattle offers some lessons for how to make a car dependent city fall for transit again
Transportation Trump Administration Guts Transit Funding. That’s Bad for Cities and the Planet By Peter Simek | 7 months ago There is more than transportation funding at stake in the rehaul of the federal grant program that gave Dallas the Oak Cliff Streetcar
Good Public Transit Good Luck Riding DART Today By Peter Simek | 7 months ago An outage downtown shows, once again, how important D2 is to the future of the entire DART system
Good Public Transit Are We Entering the Golden Era of the Bus? By Peter Simek | 7 months ago Negative attitudes about the bus prevail, but increasingly urban planners are turning to the lowly bus in their search for sustainable transit.
