CNU-NTX Happy Hour

Now, as an official part of the Congress of New Urbanism (North Texas Chapter), we've decided to begin a monthly happy hour for one and all. It will be the last Thursday of every month at the Londoner in the heart of the State-Thomas neighborhood of uptown Dallas, beginning TONIGHT! From 5:30 to 7:30 or whenever anybody is ready to leave.

Eventually, we plan on beginning project/development tours as well to coincide with happy hours or urban conversations that the CNU hosts in order to raise the level of dialog and understanding while democratizing the conversation as well as any resident of the city can be just the urbanist of a practicing professional. For tonight though, it will just be about tasty adult beverages, conversations about cities, development, urbanism, or what have you, amongst friends (old and new) and colleagues.

So if you care about your city or your neighborhood, come on out. Brian McLaren promises to buy a beer for the first three attendees (not sure if that includes himself and yours truly), but I intend to double down on his offer as well. Perhaps for the last three survivors. I am Irish after all.

Free Beer Guess the City: Making its Triumphant Return

Back by popular demand, tonight after normal working hours the Walkable DFW happy hour can be found at Sol Irlandes downtown. No textual clues, just photographic ones and plenty of them for maximum possibility of me leaving something obvious for you to find:

Guesses in the comments. First correct answer gets a beer on this guy. Remember kids, work hard, play hard.

Friday Happy Hour

Not a guess the City, but guess the bar* where I'll be at this evening:

*Not intended to be challenging

Deets on the Friday's Cross-Town Happy Hour

The first annual FortWorthology/WalkableDFW joint happy hour scheduled for this Friday in (hopefully) sunny downtown Fort Worth will take place at Houston Street Bar and Patio. Further information below and be sure to check both sites for the Free Beer Guess the Cities to be featured on each site on Friday.



Departure times from Union Station in Downtown Dallas (if you are catching it somewhere else, you are on your own...fortunately, I have the link):

Westbound from Union Station:
4:35 pm
4:55 pm
5:15 pm *
5:35 pm *
5:55 pm *
6:22 pm
6:57 pm

* recommended

Where we will get off at the second to last stop along the line. Here is a handy map for how we will get to Houston St. Bar and Patio from the Fort Worth Intermodal Station:



Departure times to get back to Dallas unless you drank too much to catch the train and decide to stay on the street in a downtown Fort Worth hotel (you know who you are). And if that is the case, then you are doin' work and I salute you:

Eastbound from Fort Worth Intermodal:
7:46 pm
9:12 pm
10:38 pm

Fare information:
We will be traversing through 2-zones in the TRE lexicon which equates to a one-way fare of $3.75 or $7.50 for a day pass.

Free Beer Friday Guess the City

I have a surprisingly extensive highway system, none of which actually effect the city center, which buffers it from the highway and industrial riverfront via a rigidly geometric ring road, which replaced city walls. Internal to the ring road is an equally rigid orthogonal grid pattern and extremely pedestrian friendly with numerous carfree roads.

I may or may not have friends and relatives in a recent post. Who am I?

(ed. note: as always, first correct guess in the comments and find me at happy hour gets a free beer. Except for reigning champ Toby who apparently is accepting Carbon offsets instead of beer.)

Free Beer Friday Happy Hour

Cancelled this week. As I practice my car-free-ness and take the TRE to Fort Worth for a wedding tonight.

Friday Happy Hour: Free Beer Guess the City

...is BACK!!!!

Today, one beer for the City this development is in, and a seperate beer to a different NON-RELATED entrant for the name of this new project:

*note: this is not an actual ghost town despite photographic appearance.

**note 2: winning entrants will be judged by order in which responses are received in the comments section. must be present to claim your prize.

Free Beer Friday Guess the City

This one might be so ridiculously hard that nobody gets it right. But, I have to test my boundaries since you characters have gotten all of the rest so quickly...stupid architects being so informed and well traveled.

Without further ado: