Transportation News
05/16/12 An initiative by SMART, metro Detroit's regional bus system, to encourage the community to use more public transportation has reported a record number of participants in the program.
05/13/12 For the first time, a nonprofit reinsurance association will exceed $1 billion in yearly assessments on Michigan's insured drivers, since an effort in Lansing to change its cost structure has lost momentum.
05/13/12 Much to the chagrin of his wife and son, Phillip Johnson likes to spend time in airports when he is on a family vacation -- an airport often tells the unvarnished truth about a community, he reasons.
05/13/12 Michigan's top public aviation official said it's likely the state could end up subsidizing a portion of the $1 million annual operating deficit of Detroit's Coleman A. Young International Airport while the city struggles to solve its wider cash crisis.
05/11/12 Waterford Township-based Pentastar Aviation LLC has been approved to fly direct departures from its executive terminal at Oakland County International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
05/11/12 DEARBORN (AP) — Rail congestion along a Detroit Amtrak route is expected to be alleviated with the addition of a new track to separate the movement of freight and passenger trains.
05/10/12 Gov. Rick Snyder met privately in Windsor this morning with top Canadian and U.S. officials to discuss the proposed publicly owned Detroit River bridge.
05/10/12 LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Department of Transportation says it's using digitally encrypted electronic signatures for construction contractors as part of an effort to save paper and money.
05/09/12 LUDINGTON — In the dim light below deck on the S.S. Badger, chief engineer Bill Kulka worked toward a deadline. He and other employees had torn apart the ship's two steam engines, removing mammoth pistons and bearings, and were laboring to get it back together before the start of the car ferry's summer season May 24.
05/06/12 Good mass transit puts people first by planning with them and for them, connecting people to hospitals, colleges, jobs and shopping.
05/06/12 A $400 million Canadian effort to build a larger commercial train tunnel underneath the Detroit River could become a casualty in the ongoing war swirling around construction of a public bridge over the waterway.
05/04/12 DETROIT (AP) — Detroit says it's negotiating with a company that wants to return commercial passenger service to Coleman A. Young International Airport.
04/30/12 Auburn Hills-based Chrysler Group LLC said today that it will commit $3 million over five years toward the mostly privately funded $137 million downtown Detroit streetcar project.
04/29/12 "Official" Detroit is so down-and-out that its imagination can falter. Clearly understandable when the state has stepped in to help the city reorder its financial house.
04/29/12 The Motor City is looking to the Queen City when it comes to downtown streetcars.
04/22/12 Michigan's three Amtrak lines will get up to 25 new bi-level passenger rail cars worth $106 million, under a federal plan announced Friday.
04/22/12 On Jan. 23, an MD-11 wide-body aircraft touched down at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and taxied to a building that has been empty since June 2009 -- a victim of our nation's economic recession.
04/20/12 DETROIT (AP) — Owners of the Ambassador Bridge say they are backing a statewide ballot proposal that would prohibit Michigan from developing a new U.S.-to-Canada bridge or tunnel unless voters approve.
04/20/12 Michigan's three Amtrak lines will get up to 25 new bi-level passenger rail cars worth $106 million under a federal plan announced today.
04/16/12 KALAMAZOO (AP) — Amtrak said some trains will be canceled and delayed today through Wednesday on the routes from Chicago to Port Huron and Pontiac.
04/12/12 The Michigan Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to complete the $230 million Ambassador Gateway Project to Dan’s Excavating Inc. of Shelby Township and Kansas City, Mo.-based TranSystems Corp.
04/12/12 DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit says changes to bus service will take effect April 28 as part of an effort to cut costs and improve the city's public transportation system.
04/10/12 DEARBORN (AP) — Dearborn is celebrating construction of a $28 million train station that will provide easy access to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
04/08/12 The private consortium of Detroit investors trying to persuade the federal government to aid it in building a downtown streetcar line is confident Washington will approve its plan.
04/03/12 Spirit Airlines Inc. said today that it’s adding a daily nonstop flight between Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
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