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- 24 Dec 2020 14:05
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: West Dallas: Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9583
Re: West Dallas: Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development
Lol I think Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development will be the name of my next band.
- 01 Dec 2020 11:03
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Replies: 519
- Views: 454331
Re: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Don't get me started on DART and digital signage. The platform signs have said just the line color for years, which is useless when you've got rush hour service on the orange line and late night service that terminates at the train yards. They can waste billions on boondoggles like the silver line b...
- 24 Sep 2019 18:30
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Silver Line
- Replies: 402
- Views: 461062
Re: Silver Line
Yikes. They want to get this boondoggle operational quickly. Can't wait for the 20/20 feature story on "The Train to Nowhere." Why don't you go tell the UTD student/staff population that you don't think they deserve rail service because they live in the middle of "nowhere?". Nev...
- 20 Apr 2019 13:48
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: DFW Airport
- Replies: 420
- Views: 361948
Re: DFW Airport
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- 10 Apr 2019 21:33
- Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
- Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
- Replies: 149
- Views: 129877
Re: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
Well, this is Mike Ablon’s baby. Tell your friends to vote for Scott Griggs if you want the boondoggles to end.
- 20 Mar 2019 14:43
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Replies: 519
- Views: 454331
Re: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Any thoughts on DART’s insane plan to shut down downtown rail service every weekend between now and September to replace the tracks? After they just did a track replacement a few years ago? Six months of no weekend service (bus shuttles in place) is an insane inconvenience. I’d really like some info...
- 28 Feb 2018 23:44
- Forum: Site Issues + Feedback
- Topic: Site UI, UX and formatting
- Replies: 32
- Views: 59267
Re: Site UI, UX and formatting
Quarterly reminder that this user interface is complete fucking garbage, any idiot who has read the wikipedia article on SQL could have recovered the posts from the old forum and integrated them into this forum, and nothing has been done to address any of this. Maybe why this forum is so dead now? C...
- 19 Feb 2018 17:01
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Victory Park 3.0
- Replies: 918
- Views: 793038
Re: Victory Park 3.0
Developer pitching new office project in Dallas' Victory Park https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/02/19/developer-pitching-new-office-project-dallas-victory-park Developers in Dallas' Victory Park have just built four new apartment towers, a movie theater and additional retail. Now...
- 30 Jan 2018 22:14
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
- Replies: 556
- Views: 488327
Re: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
It appears to be very isolated from the Cedars, even more isolated from downtown. It's at least a 1/2 mile walk to the nearest DART station(s). What? Are we looking at the same site plan? It looks pretty damn convenient to both Convention Center and Cedars stations to me... The only problem is that...
- 27 Jan 2018 11:52
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
- Replies: 1075
- Views: 917702
Re: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
"Dallas Mayor Rawlings was one. Among his points: Dallas has been growing faster than any city in the country and fast growth is a factor that both it and Amazon share. "Nobody has grown faster or created more jobs than us," he said. Does Rawlings intentionally obfuscate Dallas and D...
- 10 Dec 2017 18:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forum Activity
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19590
Re: Forum Activity
For the love of god can someone please do something about the piss poor design of this website? I've been coming here since 2003 and I'm now down to about once a month because it's so frustrating to use. WHY IS THERE A BLACK BAR ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF MY BROWSER THAT IS PARTIALLY OBSCURING THE TEX...
- 10 Dec 2017 17:57
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Museum Tower
- Replies: 229
- Views: 231555
Re: Museum Tower
If the tower had sold out quickly we'd all be tsk tsking about how they did a firesale at a loss just to get rid of the thing. Instead, they choose to maintain their margin and do a slow burn on the sales so we tsk tsk about the slow rate of sales. I see absolutely nothing wrong with Museum Tower ch...
- 10 Dec 2017 17:54
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
- Replies: 143
- Views: 132987
Re: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
Phillip Johnson was such a hack. I don't think Thanksgiving Square can be saved from the incredibly stupid design choices. Why not bulldoze it and start over? Hell, with so many other parks going in why not just sell it to someone so they can put a new tower on the site?
- 29 Jul 2017 20:48
- Forum: Site Issues + Feedback
- Topic: Site UI, UX and formatting
- Replies: 32
- Views: 59267
Re: Site UI, UX and formatting
Seriously, what can we do to fix the coathanger abortion of a user interface this forum has now? What exactly is the purpose of the "Dm" black bar currently obscuring part of the text entry box I'm using right now? Why is the banner at the top of the page so ludicrously huge? Why do I have...
- 26 May 2017 22:03
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: AT&T Discovery District
- Replies: 451
- Views: 396646
Re: AT&T Discovery District
AT&T experimenting with LEDs.
Click the picture if you want to see the photo upright... strange forum bug...
- 23 Mar 2017 15:12
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
- Replies: 670
- Views: 611898
Re: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Hard to believe DART, the city or any entity would just get rid of a station on this side of Deep Ellum. It's not hard to believe at all. That station gets almost no passengers when you look at the numbers. It also doesn't serve Deep Ellum nearly as well as the Baylor station does. Shutting it down...
- 17 Mar 2017 09:50
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: Downtown Dallas: Retail
- Replies: 239
- Views: 199970
Re: Downtown Dallas: Retail
Neiman's has been owned by outsiders for decades. If the downtown store wasn't a net positive (including the positive impact on the overall brand) it would have been closed long ago.
- 15 Feb 2017 16:41
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 429253
Re: DART D2 Subway
CTroyMathis wrote:muncien wrote:I've got a silly question that maybe one of our knowledgeable rail contributors can speak to...
Can the modern street cars run on the existing DART LRT tracks?
Yes.
But I doubt the floor of the street cars lines up with the platforms at the LRT stations.
- 10 Feb 2017 11:11
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Rankings and Quality of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11585
Re: Rankings and Quality of Life
tamtagon wrote:A big multi-'player' inland port like Alliance Airport would be fantastic in South Dallas....
It was attempted. Alliance killed it.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-leaders-walked-arm-in-arm-with-john-wiley-price-in-the-betrayal-of-southern-dallas-7141020
- 27 Jan 2017 12:32
- Forum: The Airports
- Topic: Dallas Love Field Airport
- Replies: 98
- Views: 108592
Re: Dallas Love Field Airport
Here's a fun Jetrail video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5T1_sUy1s Building some sort of people mover from the terminal to Bachman Station seems inevitable, but I really don't understand why all the concepts are in a tunnel. Is that to make the trip time the shortest possible? The view of down...
- 26 Jan 2017 16:02
- Forum: Urban Development
- Topic: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
- Replies: 681
- Views: 623452
Re: Downtown Dallas: The Drever
lakewoodhobo wrote:The Drever website is live: https://thedreverdallas.com/
The website says: "Juxtaposed near luxury iconic Dallas retailers, Neiman Marcus and Forty Five Ten..."
Juxtaposed. So, what, they're gonna have a Foot Locker and a Sears?
- 23 Jan 2017 10:52
- Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
- Topic: DART D2 Subway
- Replies: 508
- Views: 429253
Re: DART D2 Subway
Having an alignment that is under 3-4 blocks away from the current alignment is just pointless and wasteful. The only alignments that make any sort of sense or Young and Wood. lol classic DART thinking. Instead of serving any one area extremely well we always choose to provide mediocre service to t...
- 11 Jan 2017 10:24
- Forum: City Issues/News
- Topic: Dallas: The Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 51123
Re: Dallas Bankruptcy Threat
tanzoak wrote:They've probably lost more money with the waiting than they would have if they had just cut prices by 15% or whatever.
I'd bet you a hundred bucks that they have hired consultants to perform that analysis and they disagree with you.