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by f4shionablecha0s
24 Dec 2020 14:05
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: West Dallas: Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development
Replies: 12
Views: 9169

Re: West Dallas: Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development

Lol I think Unnamed Megatel Lagoon Development will be the name of my next band.
by f4shionablecha0s
01 Dec 2020 11:03
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Replies: 519
Views: 423547

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
24 Sep 2019 18:30
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: Silver Line
Replies: 401
Views: 421066

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
20 Apr 2019 13:48
Forum: The Airports
Topic: DFW Airport
Replies: 420
Views: 328422

Re: DFW Airport

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by f4shionablecha0s
10 Apr 2019 21:33
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
Replies: 148
Views: 114842

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.
by f4shionablecha0s
20 Mar 2019 14:43
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Replies: 519
Views: 423547

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
28 Feb 2018 23:44
Forum: Site Issues + Feedback
Topic: Site UI, UX and formatting
Replies: 32
Views: 54686

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
19 Feb 2018 17:01
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Victory Park 3.0
Replies: 912
Views: 755871

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
30 Jan 2018 22:14
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: DALLAS to HOUSTON High Speed Rail
Replies: 556
Views: 454998

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
27 Jan 2018 11:52
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Could Dallas land Amazon HQ '2'?
Replies: 1075
Views: 872932

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
10 Dec 2017 18:01
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forum Activity
Replies: 11
Views: 18740

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
10 Dec 2017 17:57
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Museum Tower
Replies: 229
Views: 225947

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
10 Dec 2017 17:54
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Dallas: Thanks-Giving Square
Replies: 143
Views: 126827

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?
by f4shionablecha0s
29 Jul 2017 20:48
Forum: Site Issues + Feedback
Topic: Site UI, UX and formatting
Replies: 32
Views: 54686

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
26 May 2017 22:03
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: AT&T Discovery District
Replies: 451
Views: 381136

Re: AT&T Discovery District

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AT&T experimenting with LEDs.

Click the picture if you want to see the photo upright... strange forum bug...
by f4shionablecha0s
23 Mar 2017 15:12
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Deep Ellum: Epic ~ Knights of Pythias Temple
Replies: 670
Views: 565908

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
17 Mar 2017 09:50
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: Downtown Dallas: Retail
Replies: 239
Views: 194713

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.
by f4shionablecha0s
15 Feb 2017 16:41
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: DART D2 Subway
Replies: 508
Views: 402350

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.
by f4shionablecha0s
10 Feb 2017 11:11
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: Rankings and Quality of Life
Replies: 7
Views: 11373

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
by f4shionablecha0s
27 Jan 2017 12:32
Forum: The Airports
Topic: Dallas Love Field Airport
Replies: 98
Views: 99089

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
26 Jan 2017 16:02
Forum: Urban Development
Topic: DTD: The National/Thompson Hotel (1401 Elm)
Replies: 681
Views: 587569

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?
by f4shionablecha0s
23 Jan 2017 10:52
Forum: Rail + Guided Transit
Topic: DART D2 Subway
Replies: 508
Views: 402350

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...
by f4shionablecha0s
11 Jan 2017 10:24
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: Dallas: The Thread
Replies: 50
Views: 49868

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.