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Booker T. principal says thanks ...

.. to all those officials who worked quickly to line up school zone status for the downtown magnet school after student Kelsey McKinney wrote a column for this newspaper about the traffic dangers there. Tracie J. Fraley, principal of Booker...


Should Booker T. get a school zone designation?

It's a subject we've been following over on the Transportation Blog. A student at Booker T. wrote a column for this newspaper asking for a school zone, fearing someone will get badly hurt by the furious traffic out there....


I'm trying to obey the law

Who was the insane person who suggested a 70 mph speed limit, and the rest of the gang went along with it? I drive State Highway 121 and I try to stay in the right-hand lane and go 70 mph,...


Will success make Richardson traffic unbearable?

Lots of development is going forward in Richardson, with much of it related to DART's rail service. But there's a downside to this good fortune: increased pressure on roadways. North Central Expressway is getting the big pounding. Just last...


On freeway congestion ...

Extra lane would lessen gridlock Re: "Traffic lanes for the rest of us," Barbara Meier, Monday Letters Meier hit the nail on the head: We should open the HOV lanes to everyone. We now have HOV lanes with very few...


Anyone joining the toll-road boycott?

Our blog readers were breathing fire after NTTA's decision last week to raise tolls by 32 percent. Many vowed to toss their TollTags, boycott the tollways and commute on free surface streets. Will you be one of them? Tollway...


Should Dallas HOV drivers turn in cheaters?

Should Dallas-area HOV users help identify HOV lawbreakers by reporting their license plates to authorities? Could this discourage others from using the lanes illegally or barging in and out of them? Results from a program in the Seattle area...


"Traffic down in Dallas'? -- What's your view?

The gentleman from Kentucky, my esteemed colleague Michael Lindenberger, eased into the TTI urban traffic congestion report with a somewhat upbeat rendering. It was the right headline based on the figures in the biennial report. On the editorial page, meanwhile,...

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