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Why Do We Accept Traffic Deaths as Part of Life?
Texas anticipates that 3,791 people will die every year from traffic accidents. Why is that okay?
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Unlike Bike Shares, Scooters Are Here to Stay
The question now: How will cities regulate them, improve infrastructure, and keep riders safe?
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How Successful is Regionalism? Let’s Do the Math.
If you are drinking the regionalism Kool-Aid, then its time to take a hard look at the long-term costs of DFW's rapid decades of wild growth.
Ameliorating Highways
I-345 Once Again Makes List of Highways We Definitely Need to Tear Down
The Congress for the New Urbanism's annual "Freeways Without Futures" report includes the elevated highway that separates Deep Ellum and Downtown
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When it Comes to Encouraging Walkability, Austin Runs Past Dallas
Austin offers some simple urban lessons: create a Pedestrian Advisory Council and eliminate minimum parking requirements
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Dallas Public Transit Was Better in 1919 Than It Is in 2019
A spiffed up map of the old Dallas streetcar line could serve as a model for future transit efforts in the urban core.
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How American Cities Keep Job Seekers Away From Jobs
A new study digs into so-called "spatial mismatch," an under-discussed symptom of sprawl that contributes to cycles of poverty
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New Report Lays Out Case for DFW’s Urban Future
There is both pent-up demand for and incredible economic potential in investing in more walkable neighborhoods. But we can't just let the market sort it out.
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City Finds Its Voice, Pushes Back on TxDOT’s Awful I-30 Redesign
The state agency was planning another ruinous, neighborhood-killing highway project. Dallas (finally) wants something better.
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Don’t Mourn D-Link. Its Failure Offers More Proof Bus System Needs a Rehaul.
The free bus service will be phased out because of low ridership. But D-Link never really had a chance.