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I concur with the above posts that street interaction is limited facing the park because of the giant wall all along the length of the property. wall_park.PNG But Miyama mentions about adding to the skyline. I dont think its tall enough nor distinctive enough for that. It's basically a stack of boxe...

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At this point just have a bunch of Drones fly over between the two bridges and dump wildflower seeds in the entire basin. At least it would be pretty and some great photo opps until something can get going. Haha thats actually a great idea, Im sure it wouldnt even cost that much. I'd counter it sho...

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Why would the Green line be a negative for Deep Ellum this seems so contrary to other urban cities where they would want transit. Not sure I understand. Even Los Angeles of all places is adding more rail and stations why would Dallas not want more instead of less transit. Its not so much the statio...

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I know parking is a big complaint, but there never really seems to be any shortage of people in Deep Ellum. Has the lack of parking really been detrimental to the area? Its not impossible, but inconvenient. The shortage of clearly identifieable parking, dealing with parking attendants that are impo...

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Deep Ellum stakeholders share thoughts on incoming office projects https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/01/21/deep-ellum-stakeholders-share-thoughts-on-incoming.html?iana=hpmvp_dal_news_headline In December, Westdale President and CEO Joe Beard told the Dallas Business Journal that not only...

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Someone else posted this link on the D2 page, But there's some bits about the Silver line. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dart-plans-for-new-dallas-subway-to-city-council/2296017/ At the same time DART is moving forward with the $1.2 billion Silver Line, formerly known as the Cotton Belt Line, fo...

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That doesn't mean that DFW doesn't need app-based solutions to different problems, but that they would be so different they aren't going to be developed in a place like SF but rather a place more like DFW if they are developed at all. I think Dallas, among other cities, countries, have missed this ...

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Too bad we can't START the businesses here. That's the flip side to this situation. The relocations won't last forever and if they do the competition will get stiffer to land them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2019/11/13/best-worst-states-entrepreneurs-2020/#12410f1546a6 Here are the...

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So....here we go again, is it 17 or 20? Lol . the old dallas news press release definitely said 17, But this biz journal says 20 for sure. But its the same building. They might have just added 3 stories to round up the number. the picture is a weird angle, but they are the same building. Old 155741...

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A few thoughts about DART and parking... 1. I don't really get why DART is in the parking lot business. 2. If you have them, why not just charge EVERYBODY who parks there? 3. If you are a resident in the DART service area, you likely have a bus route nearby and have no real NEED to park at the park...

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One area I wish we DART thought about more is a circle around Dallas county and more service to Mesquite areas. Purple Line anyone? ... Mesquite, Allen, McKinney, Frisco have already said they don't want to be part of Dart. Why does everyone keep dreaming of expansion, towards areas that don't want...

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Against (For Trench/Tunnel) It looks like only the original person who started the topic can make a poll Would be helpful to gauge the forums POV's From FAQ link in top left corner How do I create a poll? When posting a new topic or editing the first post of a topic, click the “Poll creation” tab b...

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Good points. If you go back to the Pages 1-2 of this thread I get into a serious back and forth about the specifics of CityMap. ... No kidding, the back and forth between your ol' nemesis. I generally scroll past people just arguing minutia, but Given that you started this thread and we are only cy...

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Thats terrible, and not addressed with CityMap. Why is it like that? Because WR isnt designed to handle Southbound traffic from Central to I-45 (or to I-30). I-345 is. Now if they want to completely rebuild that interchange and widen Lowest Stemmons (beyond whats happening now) then maybe you could...

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Any updates?

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Im not afraid of removal. Its a fact, without i-345 your freeway option southbound is a single cloverleaf ramp at I-35 and WR. Thats it. TxDOT would basically be derelict to tear down, with the rest of the freeway system in its current configuration. Is this the cloverleaf ramp? clover.png I think ...

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I thought I'd repost these from the CityMAP study done in 2016. Someone had actually posted it on page 1 of this discussion, but its been years!!! These are the renderings used in the DMagazine article and the TxDOT meeting docs. Hopefully itll help recontextualize some arguments. Also apparently th...

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I think 'cut & cover' is what is meant by 'tunnel' in most of these references. Maybe I'm wrong. But, I don't think anyone ever seriously considered TBMs be used for this. That said, TXDOT's 'trench' proposal seems to only be half of what is really needed. I'm curious how much the sale of land ...

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It's twisted is what it is. In order to "save" one neighborhood, theyll screw another one. They only mentioned adding a lane to Riverfront, to help with the traffic going to Medical District. Which is why it is important for everyone to get involved, answer their surveys! The other importa...

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Very creative design, I wonder why they left the field open. Now all they need is to put together a competitive team!! Speaking of Arlington teams that are underperforming, Why didnt the cowboys do something like this? It's basically an island out there. But they seriously need to get a train in the...

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The Public Is Hungry For Research and Data Around I-345 ...The most common concern for removal is where the traffic will go. But how much traffic is there? TxDOT has said an average of 180,000 cars use I-345 each day. Where are those vehicles going?... ...Kennedy noted that design consultants Kimle...

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Kinda random, but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the old mural inside 1401 elm? It was probably posted in the old forum, citing renovation that they were interested in keeping it. Ive been looking for pictures online, but can't seem to find it. Could have sworn it was a tree. You can...

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Cant' wait to see how they turn this into a sam's club

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Kinda random, but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the old mural inside 1401 elm?
It was probably posted in the old forum, citing renovation that they were interested in keeping it.
Ive been looking for pictures online, but can't seem to find it.
Could have sworn it was a tree.

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Way too much going on, nearly every angle of the rendering looks like a different building. With that said, I would be elated to see a building of this scale interact with the DART portal. Thats because its several buildings, not just one. But I think that's kind of the point, the different texture...

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This all sounds like people doubting the existence of electricity or the creation of the light bulb. Removing the section of the highway will def change the nature of traffic. The idea that the traffic would be any different than any other highly trafficked Blvd in Dallas let alone the world is qui...

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Was about to post this but yall are quick, someone always posts first :) First Look: Field Street District in Dallas Opportunities like these don’t come around very often, and the partners behind the new Field Street District are determined to get it right. Kaizen Development Partners, Woods Capital...

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You haven't seen safe major blvds of the world then cause it is very possible in the world of street design to create safe streets that cater to both safe pedestrians and cars of sizable nature with serious amounts of traffic...............A wide blvd of 4 lanes in each direction could also include...

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I-980 may be the next Bay-area freeway to go: https://grist.org/article/oakland-california-freeway-removal-interstate-980/ Thanks. This is closer to I-345 since it is bisecting a downtown area and not a waterfront. I am not sure how much of it is speculative since I am not familiar with the area, B...

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The Embarcadero Freeway was pretty much a glorified off ramp. It's traffic count was about 1/3 that of I-345. Removing it just meant dumping local traffic onto city streets a few blocks earlier. The local equivalent would be the Good-Latimer exit off of US-75 southbound. Thanks for that nugget of i...

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The way the eastern (Heritage Village) deck park is proposed doesn't show a lot of promise for having a KWP-style effect on the area. However, the deck adjacent to S Harwood should be prioritized if they need to be phased out. This would pull Old City Park into the Farmers Market and away from the ...

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Im sure this has been discussed somewhere on this forum, or somewhere in I345 analysis documents, But it is always useful to look at other places where highways have been torn down and how cities have managed it. On City Beautiful, perhaps a youtube channel of interest to other people on this forum,...

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Wow, That's pretty progressive. Although, I don't know how helpful this will be if the system is not robust. Perhaps, that's why it will be free. Coincidentally, I was lucky enough to get a chance to ride it a while back when in town for a conference. Which, given that Kansas City is a smaller city...

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Loop 12 is called Buckner Boulevard in some parts, Northwest Highway in other parts. Ledbetter Drive in others, it's all just semantics. If you replace I-345 with a 6 lane Boulevard or a 6 lane one way DNT-HarryHines/Harwood equivalent Or if you try to feed I-345 through the grid... The result is th...

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Just out of curiosity, how many people that favor the tear down actually live south of I-30 and utilize 345 to get to and from work? Someone should make a poll, I remember there was one for the D2 Alignment. Selfish is crude, but it is the correct word. People do infact use it to bypass downtown go...

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I dont mean to rain down on anyone's parade here, it definitely is good news.
But are there any numbers on the expected jobs?
It all looks like blatant public political positioning.
They moved their HQ for tax purposes while majority of the jobs are staying in SF.
I mean we'll take what we can get.

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You have pointed out a truth about mass transit. But your data needs improvements. A SLRV has a seating capacity of 100, and a maximum capacity of 200 per DART’s web site, including the link you provided. Green Line trains can have three SLRV per train. So each Green Line train can have 300 seats a...

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Prior to the Texas OU fiasco I posted the numbers here. Unfortunately that post was lost in the site crash. But the bottom line was that if you dedicated every piece of rolling stock that DART owned at the time to serving that one event, filled every car to theoretical capacity, and ran them throug...

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What he means is when the event is over tons of people cram on the trains and it takes a long time to get on the train because transit like DART was really designed for a much smaller number of people to get on and off at different stops. It still happens at the Fair every night when the park close...

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These plans incorporate up to over 14 acres of surplus land, and the city’s draft plans include two deck parks -- a swath between Griffin and Akard and Canton and Cadiz streets, and three fingers of land between Harwood and St. Paul just north of the Dallas Heritage Village. The city proposed the s...

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I feel like this design leaves a lot to be desired. Anything specific? Ideally the part next to Dallas Heritage Village should be all one piece. Seperating into 3 pieces makes no sense, given there are no streets or ramps cutting it up. Might as well cover it all up at once. But I figure this can't...

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This line will surely make attending one of these events far more appealing. Getting into and out of Addison on event nights is dreadful. lol I take you didn't learn from the Texas-OU debacle. Big events are the things that rail transit are the absolute worst at. They just don't scale. Prepare to s...

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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...

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D2 newsletter is out: https://www.dart.org/ShareRoot/about/expansion/d2/D2SubwayNewsletterJuly2019.pdf Some highlights: -The project is advancing towards 20% design, with completion of this milestone scheduled for March 2020 -DART is exploring the opportunity to move the Deep Ellum Station to just ...

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Yep! I didnt hear about it until recently. It's basically in every list about hidden gem's around Dallas. Pictures all over the internet, basically it's an open secret.

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I was hoping to find information about this development on here, but in case it hasn't been posted yet here it is. An old rock quarry in Fort Worth is being transformed from a mining area into an development where residents can live and play. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported an 80-acre quarry s...

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Does anyone here know anything about the Quarry in Mckinney ? it's known as That Dallas Quarry online.
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Like this in Albuquerque. That's exactly what I was thinking! looks amazing. Thanks for the upload. I agree that they definitely section off the neighbordhoods. If the ramps and grids were more aligned it would help significantly. One city I can think of is Austin. Their downtown isnt bounded by hi...

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Ah, true, I completely neglected to think about that aspect (former tenants), good point. Still is weird to me though, but I suppose it makes more sense than opening it to the public. Maybe in the far future, once ground level parking is less prevalent downtown, DART could make a little bit of extr...

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This is a great idea. Not only will they add charm to the city, they will add value to the city by being a tourist/instagram spot. Think Abbey records beatles record. The rest of the city should consider something like this. Victory park should add MAVS/STARS themed crossings.

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