Urbanism
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Good Public Transit
It’s Official: DART Will Roll Out New Bus Service Plan in January
A redesigned bus network aims to make the public transit system easier to understand and use.
Transit Oriented Development
How Will the Senate Infrastructure Bill Affect Dallas’ I-345?
The $1 trillion legislation includes a pilot program targeting highway-to-boulevard projects like I-345. Will it be enough to make removal a reality?
Transportation
Why It Is Time to End Mandatory Parking Minimums in Dallas
Parking policies hide the cost of car travel by making it more difficult to build vibrant urban places. Until they are abolished, Dallas will never regrow its core.
Transportation
Deck Park Will Finally Give Historic Neighborhood ‘A Place to Walk to’
The Oak Cliff park suggests that Dallas is finally learning to listen to local communities when planning major public infrastructure investments
Policy
Urban Expert on TxDOT’s I-345 Options: ‘You Can Do Better’
Peter Park helped Milwaukee remove its own urban highway. He believes TxDOT can improve upon its initial designs for replacing I-345.
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Urban Design
Hunt Realty Bets Big on New Victory Park Development
The company hopes to attract commercial tenants with huge towers and human-scale green space.
Urbanism
If Dallas Wants To Get Back to Basics, Let’s Start With Fixing Our Sidewalks
It's going to cost $2 billion and some guts to find the city's 2,000 missing miles of sidewalk.
Dallas History
What We Really Lose When Highways Destroy Historic Neighborhoods
A few old news reports about Deep Ellum in the late 1960s unintentionally document the huge costs of highway-driven demolition.
Transportation
I-345 Back on CNU’s ‘Freeways Without Futures’ List
The downtown highway has become a perennial on the Congress for the New Urbanism's roundup of urban freeways that could be transformed into boulevards
Transit Oriented Development
I-345 Might Come Down Sooner Than Expected
A report in the New York Times shows how urban highway removal has gone mainstream, and it may get a boost from the Biden Administration.