Transportation Welcome to Dallas Uber, Now Clean Up Your Act By Peter Simek | 1 day ago A damning new safety report shows there were 6,000 sexual assaults in Uber rides over a two year period. Who will ultimately ensure ride-shares are safe?
Transportation Texas Wants to Eliminate Traffic Deaths By 2050. Is It Possible? By Peter Simek | 1 day ago As other cities and states have found, making streets safer requires more than just safety spending
Transportation Trump Administration Guts Transit Funding. That’s Bad for Cities and the Planet By Peter Simek | 3 weeks 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 Are We Entering the Golden Era of the Bus? By Peter Simek | 1 month ago Negative attitudes about the bus prevail, but increasingly urban planners are turning to the lowly bus in their search for sustainable transit.
Transportation Traffic Fatalities Dropped in 2018, But Pedestrian and Cyclists Auto-Related Deaths Are On the Rise By Peter Simek | 1 month ago We're making our streets safer for drivers. When will funding and policy address the deaths of everyone who shares the road with cars?
Commercial Real Estate Will Opportunity Zones Trigger Reinvestment or Supercharge Gentrification? By Peter Simek | 2 months ago An arcane provision in the 2017 tax bill has prompted both hope for and fears over the future of southern Dallas.
Good Public Transit DART Is (Finally) Ready to Redo Its Bus System By Peter Simek | 2 months ago The transit agency has hired the consultant who helped revolutionize the Seattle and Houston bus networks.
Good Public Transit Why Do American Cities Hate the Bus? By Peter Simek | 3 months ago Dallas is not the only U.S. city with a cruddy bus system. A new book argues the challenges are both political and bureaucratic.
Policy Texas State Government Not Alone In Stripping Cities of Political Power By Peter Simek | 4 months ago In 2019, state governments continued their attempt to preemptively limit municipalities' ability to regulate businesses, protect civil rights
Local News Is Dallas Really Attracting Tons of Young Professionals? By Peter Simek | 5 months ago A new study trumpeted by Dallas’ daily newspaper and the regional chamber claims Dallas is a millennial destination. But its conclusions are bunk.
Urbanism New Study Shows Gentrification May Not Be the Boogeyman Many Fear By Peter Simek | 5 months ago It is not easy to answer the question of who wins and who loses when urban neighborhoods rapidly redevelop.
Urbanism North Texas Won’t Win in the Long Run With a ‘Dallas Also’ Attitude By Peter Simek | 5 months ago A recent editorial in the city's daily sheds a light on the complacency that characterizes much of Dallas' civic leadership.
