We fundamentally misunderstand these things about streets:

1. Streets are a liability, not an asset.
2. Street design is the primary factor in crash prevention and safety.
3. Streets should prioritize human movement, not automobile movement.

Dallas Area Transit Alliance Opposes Pullout Election Efforts

A DART board member tells me Farmers Branch and Highland Park will also discuss holding withdrawal elections from the agency. Much of the broader coverage has focused on the suburbs itching to bail. Here's a profile of a group fighting to keep—and improve—DART. labreportdallas.com/p/dart-s-big...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

What do YOU want to see in the next federal surface transportation bill? There's a comment period open right now (👇), but let's start the conversation here.

I'll start: we need federal funding for transit operations yesterday.

“To the Democrats here: you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette; I think y’all can handle breaking quorum. Constituents expect you to defend them, and that’s what you were hired to do, represent and defend their interests and their rights.” #txlege

We would not be in this position if not for selfish and short sighted city councils like Plano, Irving, and apparently Carrollton.

Yes, we can be asking DART why this cut vs that cut, but we need to be asking city leaders what they plan to DO about it.

Now someone is saying people will die of heart attacks and strokes because allowing housing will lead to too much traffic and too many pedestrians "on our streets."

So far, the in-person comments have included multiple references to "neighborhood character," "concrete-covered landscapes," and "tree preservation," meaning we should push middle-income renters out of the city to live in sprawl so that no tree is ever removed and replaced in "their" neighborhoods.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

I have a lot of paranoia around the internet and social media & I hate posting but it's time to start using my voice. Use it or lose it right...?