Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Dallas

Dallas Highway Teardown PAC Snags Two Council Seats. Next Up: Runoff

By Angie Schmitt | May 14, 2015 | 2 Comments

A coalition of Dallas residents trying to build a more walkable, people-friendly city gained some momentum in Tuesday’s election, picking up at least two City Council seats. At stake is the potential replacement of a downtown highway segment with mixed-use development and parks. The balance of power in the council now comes down to a June runoff. There were six […]

Dallas Advocates Launch a PAC to Tear Down a Highway

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 11, 2015 | 11 Comments

The movement for a more livable, less car-clogged Dallas has legs. A group of reformers advocating for the teardown of Dallas’s Interstate 345 has set out to reshape the political landscape — and they’re off to a blazing start. The Dallas Morning News reported this week that the group, A New Dallas, has launched a […]

Dallas Highway Revolt Might Actually Defeat the Trinity Toll Road

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 5, 2014 | 7 Comments

A successful highway revolt in Dallas? It’s looking like a distinct possibility as supporters of the Trinity Toll Road project continue to defect, leaving a lonely few against a growing coalition opposed to the highway. The last few months have dealt a number of setbacks to the proposed $1.5 billion road, which would slice through […]

The Dallas Trinity Parkway Plan Horrifies Even Its Earliest Champions

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 22, 2014 | 1 Comment

A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good. The Trinity Parkway is a […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Crown Prince of Fresh Air

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 19, 2014 | 5 Comments

What would you think of a city planner, out ruffling feathers with his bold ideas about density and urbanism — who commutes to work an hour each way from his ranch way outside the city? Ironic — or hypocritical? That’s the question we wrestle with in our discussion of Brad Buchanan, the head honcho at […]

Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 4, 2014 | No Comments

Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt popularized the term “parking crater,” defined simply as “a depression in the middle of an urban area formed by the absence of buildings.” Various types of “meteors” left behind parking craters in the 20th century — sprawl subsidies, highway building, the erosion of manufacturing. Whatever the cause, parking craters destroy sections of downtowns and make the environment inhospitable and […]

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