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Frontage roads

No but that's certainly a good example. I can write some stuff on it later tonight.. if you want to write some today some notable examples of a *lack* of frontage roads are Interstate 35E through portions of north Oak Cliff, a good deal of the Dallas North Tollway south of Harvest Hill.. and Interstate 635 (I think..) in north Dallas. TXDOT struck a deal recently with .. some local municipality.. or multiple ones, to build frontage roads along Interstate 20 through southern Dallas County and perhaps Interstate 30 as well.

Also, though most frontage roads are one-way, Interstate 35E south of Belt Line Road in Desoto, Texas and Glenn Heights, Texas (though this isnt the city of Dallas so its inclusion is questionable) are two-way, though they are being converted to one-way with ongoing construction. drumguy8800 C T 12:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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The promotion of the Houston article and your barnstar made my day! Thank you so much. Take care, Postoak

{{convert}}

Hey first off, thanks so much for all the work you're doing on DFW articles. You rock. Secondly, I've addressed the concerns at Template talk:convert (mostly).. now you can do the following:

• adding |abbr=on abbreviates the first unit
• adding |sing=on makes the unit appear in its singular form, for grammar issues. (ex: "The 108 foot building" instead of the "the 108 feet building")

.. also, I've added a few things to prevent line-breaking, though I don't think they're working out so well. I tried placing it in both a span and a div (both failed) with white-space:nowrap; but for some reason it didn't make any difference. drumguy8800 C T 00:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Dallas, Texas broken references & Stonebriar Centre

Thank you for your work checking for broken references in the Dallas article. I'm sure that was time consuming and I appreciate your diligence. Also, I just did some maintenance work on Stonebriar Centre and couldn't help but notice that the page referenced was for Valley View Mall.. also according to the page referenced, the GLA is 500k. According to a page from Simon discussing Allen Premium Outlets (google "Stonebriar Centre GLA"), the GLA is about 1.6 mil. I couldn't find/didn't feel like trying very hard to find the actual GLA on the Stonebriar Centre website. Do you know if it is accurate? -- drumguy8800 C T 06:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out this discrepancy. As it turns out, the GLA statistic for Stonebriar Centre had been misplaced, and the statistic for Valley View Center was in its place. I have taken the correct statistic and its appropriate reference from the List of shopping malls in Dallas, Texas where all the correct information and references were intact. -- RedPoptarts 21:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Hulen Mall

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Article on Matrixism: an Entheogenic Religion

There is an article on a entheogenic new religious movement called Matrixism being created at User:Xoloz/Matrixism. There are numerous sources for this article yet it has because contentious because it deals with the subject of entheogens. Thought you might like to look at it and perhaps contribute. 206.124.144.3 05:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Sky Link

Hi RedPoptarts, I volunteer at the DFW airport and I have posted up on the talk page the handouts I got when we were trained on the new Skylink systems back in winter of 2005. the top speed is 35->39 miles per hour.

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