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The airport used to have over 70 gates. It property certainly handle more than 20.

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A road like this would be acceptable for an I-345 teardown because of the whole regional transportation bit, but Cesar Chavez doesn't play that role. The con man leading the I-345 fight and his idiot followers try to justify the removal economically by saying the ROW would be used for billions of d...

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^ Not because of a lack of traffic. Because AA killed their code-sharing agreement.

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^ Strange URL. I don't quite consider a stone's throw from Addison to be downtown Dallas.

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Butters wrote:Btw, Please name three HPV shores NOT RESTAURANTS you visit more than 3 times per year.

Unless you count the movie theater as a store....never. Have not shopped in a store there even once.

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Speaking as a member of the high disposable income, 50+ demographic that Northpark covets, things like watching my kid slide down the same planters his old man did 45 years before are why Northpark is the only shopping mall we've been to in the better part of a decade. Catering to parents is a big p...

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Agreed, and given how Atlanta seems to address many of their other requirements, the $5B could enough to win HQ2 for them. As I've said, hopefully Texas is also willing to write a big check. Atlanta is still Hell on Earth. Horrible traffic. Wretched climate. Incredible racism. In a nutshell, there'...

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Here is one way to get yourself out of consideration... https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/17/in-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos-civic-groups-call-for-a-more-transparent-amazon-hq2-selection/ And how to get them to want to leave: https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/18/seattle-to-amazon-dont-leave-me-baby In ...

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After trying the Santa Fe trail a few times I went back to riding on Columbia. It's faster, and if you time the lights right you almost never have to stop -- unlike all the at-grade crossings on the trail. I've even been known to beat buses from Exposition Park to Gaston. :-) Ironically, the past co...

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Honest question: when you folks talk about "regular retail" and "mom & pops", what exactly are you talking about? Looking at my own shopping habits, outside of grocery shopping (which I only do once every six to eight weeks) virtually all of my non-online shopping is either 7...

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The sidewalks are essentially paid off. They were part of the Deep Ellum improvements plan that were passed years ago by the city in bond package. I guess you're talking about the recent Elm Street re-do. Yes, there's new concrete but functionally the too-narrow sidewalks were made even narrower. E...

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Matt777 wrote:We can't be the only big city in the world forced to use our riverfront as a drainage ditch. I haven't seen it anywhere else, at least not as poorly done as ours

I take it you've never been to Los Angeles.

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Whatever happened to hostel that was coming? That's something that is severely lacking in Dallas.

It's under construction. They made a major addition to the rear of the existing building.

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^ So you pack your 1 liter bottle of water, 8 ounce tube of toothpaste and/or Aunt Mary's cherry pie -- all of which are verboten in carry on luggage -- in your checked bag, fly to another airport, transfer them to your carry on an board another plane?

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^ You can't use the existing people mover if you have checked baggage. That's the problem.

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And if you're like most wise and cheap customers, you're parking in the remote parking lots and will be riding a bus to your parked car anyways. The wise and cheap demographic gets a friend or family member to drop them off. :D Your business travelers aren't worried about the cost -- they just expe...

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^ Why do you hate Deep Ellum?

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AA's main concern in terminal assignments is grouping aircraft types. Go out on 737 and return on an A321 and you're probably screwed.

http://crankyflier.com/2015/10/01/if-yo ... ft-wisely/

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No kidding... Such a system should be much smaller scale (2-4 people max), but with much greater frequency (on demand), and A-Z custom route automation. What? DFW is setup perfectly in this regard. If getting to your car quickly is a priority to you, then you have to pay to park in the garage right...

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Rumor on Airliners.net is that Cathay Pacific, the airline of Hong Kong, will be launching HKG-DFW to complement Oneworld partner AA's service to Hong Kong. I have flown them twice, and their service is excellent in all classes! Turn's out that the teased "Dxxxxx" was Dublin, not Dallas. ...

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When a hurricane is heading to the Texas coast, we need it all: highways, airplanes, and trains. Driving is too slow and jams up (why Houston didn't evacuate) and flying is to bureaucratic. But they would both be alleviated a bit if we had that Dallas to Houston High Speed Rail. From a post I made ...

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^ A much bigger need is to bring back streetside (outside of security) trains. It shouldn't take 25 minutes to get back to your car after you get your bags. Unfortunately AA is all about getting connecting baggage between planes and doesn't give a damn about local folks, so no way they'll let the ai...

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These are the same neighbors who killed the K-H DART station who changed their minds now that it's too late. I think you'll find very few people have actually changed their minds. You've just got the same small group of people still making noise about it 30 years later, while the majority who won t...

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^ Yup. Sell the cars to the proverbial greater fool, sell the rails for scrap and use the ROW for BRT.

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^ OK, I'll let you have that one. But that's a very small group of competitors. Certainly not best overall.

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tamtagon wrote:...especially DFW which wins the prize for best North American airport, like, all the time.

Source?

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What difference does it make? The bottom line is that the scum-sucking politicians are going to piss away a billion taxpayer dollars on a failed rail system that loses riders every year just so they can tell the 2% of the population that cares "We got you a subway!"

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What exactly is your point? My point was that the original poster was totally off track (pun intended) when he said "But now, as has been shown, DART rail has played a pivotal role in the growth of Dallas' economy." Because it has not. You can't say it hasn't helped the economy; Sure I ca...

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That's not an easement. That's the old Texas & Pacific RR right of way. I'm guessing Westdale bought it from DART.

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That is a very interesting statistic, is that backed up somewhere? Not to doubt it I am just curious. I don't recall where I got that number. But I really hate it when folks throw out stats without support, so I did a little research and discovered that the number I quoted was a actually little off...

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It led to the 1987 commercial real estate crash that absolutely ruined the city, which has now just recovered in this decade. The primary cause of the nation-wide real estate crash of the mid-80's was Congress retroactively removing the preferential tax treatment of real estate. Dallas fell quicker...

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Stillwater Capital Tees Up a Multifamily Project in Deep Ellum

http://dallas.towers.net/2017/08/05/sti ... eep-ellum/

(Steve Brown could learn a thing or two from the writer of this article, Adolfo Pesquera.)

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People said the exact same thing about DART rail when they opened the first DART line over twenty years ago. And for a while, the trains did run empty. But now, as has been shown, DART rail has played a pivotal role in the growth of Dallas' economy. I personally think it has potential. Are you refe...

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Anyone know What's the plan for the electrical wires..

Get used to them. The cost to bury them would be astronomical. The city tried to get the state to spread the cost across all electrical users statewide, and got laughed at.

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^ I think it's more a case of cheap dirt. It's almost hard to find something that the PD doesn't allow as long as you meet some very basic architectural requirements and keep your building height under 150 feet, so the neighborhood doesn't have much say.

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I've heard rumblings about that property, but this is the first I've heard of any actual plan. Recently they had one of those hearings to prohibit ground water usage so they don't have to clean-up subsurface environmental issues. Do you have a link to any information? While that property is one of t...

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OpTic Gaming is relocating from the Chicago suburbs to Dallas, Texas. "OpTic is working closely with members of the Dallas Chamber and Rogers Healy Real Estate to execute an official corporate relocation from the northwest suburbs of Chicago to the big city of Dallas, Texas." https://www....

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^ Silly developers, catering to their tenants.

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CowboyEagle05, your argument is all about getting rid of traffic. Why the hell would you want to do that? Traffic is a GOOD thing. Traffic is people and goods getting to where they want to be and/or where they are needed. Dallas is a major city specifically because of it's role as a major transporta...

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^ Hilton close to completion four blocks away at Hall/Gaston.

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^ They're currently doing the interior demolition.

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I'm still looking for those "solutions" coming from density. Urbanistas keep claiming that density makes cities more efficient, but the numbers don't agree. Dense urban areas pretty much universally have higher tax rates and higher costs of living. Places like Tokyo, London and New York sh...

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The problem with master plans is that the folks who write the plans usually have a totally different agenda than the majority of the population. Look at Forward Dallas. It's #1 priority is increasing density to increase property tax revenue. But the reality is that 90% of residents don't want that d...

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Before the rest of the satellite TODs hibernating through out the Spoke & Wheel rail system have a chance, the pulse maker has to be strong and turgid. And (quite literally) dropping a billion-plus dollars into a hole in the ground will do this how? Even the most optimistic ridership projection...

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Tivo_Kenevil wrote:D2 adds capacity, frequency of trains to all lines.. That's the type of redundancy DART needs.

Spend $1.2 billion to add capacity to a rail system that loses ridership every single year. That's really smart.

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https://www.ntta.org/roadsprojects/proj ... 050517.pdf

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....there is already a lot going on on the East Side to attract people. What's funny is that I don't see anything of interest on the west side. I'm on the east side frequently at Target, Kroger and Whataburger. But the last place I recall visiting on the west side was some second-rate sushi place w...

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If A&M needs a zoning change for their dental school expansion, they still have to obtain city permission. Uh.... No. Texas Local Government Code Sec. 211.013(c). "This subchapter does not apply to a building, other structure, or land under the control, administration, or jurisdiction of a...

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As a state agency, Texas A&M is exempt from any "municipal mandate".

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^ Someone's getting old.

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