Transportation has had such an amazing week.

A fire at the terminal air traffic control center at DFW led to a ground stop at the airport and Love Field.

Lufthansa is suing a passenger for figuring out it’d be cheaper to book a connecting flight to another city and then just get off at the end of the first leg than book a flight that ended at his first leg, which was his destination.

A Dallas city councilman is under investigation for hitting a kid on a scooter.

California seems to be sending mixed messages about its plans for a bullet train after having already invested, as the president noticed, $4 billion. In California’s defense, only $3.5 billion was federal money.

Texas, meanwhile, is building its own bullet train. A bullet train, I would assume, that has a car for steer.

So while everyone is fretting about hashtag: transit alternatives, I stopped at the Northeast Tarrant Transportation Summit, which may not sound like a big deal, but they’re figuring out how to fire people through a tube to San Antonio. The tube may not sound as sexy as a bullet train, but San Antonio is a lovely community.

In fact, I’ve pondered the significance of the Alamo on several photogenic occasions.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall my attendance at the summit last year, where they played the theme from The Jetsons to introduce a speaker.

This year, I talked to an executive at Lockheed Martin.

“Nuts to all this, we’re bringin’ back supersonic jets!” he exclaimed. Or, more accurately, I imagined him exclaiming.

In our precious reality, he actually said other countries are closing the gap on our technological advantage with air travel. Lockheed and NASA are working together on a supersonic plane that wouldn’t have a boom.

I know what you’re thinking.

“Wouldn’t it be easier just to have everyone on the ground wear earplugs all the time?!”

A trip from New York to LA would only take two and a half hours, so you’d actually land in LA a half hour before you left. That sounds great, but the airline would spend a fortune buying earplugs for everyone in flyover country.

If Russia and China are closing the gap on aviation technology, though, shouldn’t we first head to Dayton to fix this thing? Dayton is the birthplace of aviation, after all. Sure, Dayton no longer has running water, but that’ll cut down on bathroom breaks.