Tugboats guide the Maersk Atlanta container ship at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Saturday, March 30, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the Dali container ship neared the Francis Scott Key Bridge after losing power and with no ability to navigate, there were no tug boats to guide … Read more
Cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 27, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. Two survivors were pulled from the Patapsco River and six missing people are presumed dead after the Coast Guard called off search and rescue efforts. A work crew was fixing potholes … Read more
Globeville and Elyria-Swansea in north Denver for decades have been boxed in and divided by highways, railroad tracks and the South Platte River. Now the neighborhoods have been selected for a $35.5 million infusion of federal grant money to boost city projects aimed at better stitching them back together. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston last week … Read more
The Biden administration is expanding a freight data partnership with major U.S. companies to track the movement of goods in real time. On Wednesday, the Department of Transportation is announcing that its digital platform for supply chain monitoring, Freight Logistics Optimizations Works (FLOW), is being expanded to capture and publish data on inland freight ports, … Read more
The U.S., despite decades of research and studies, remains without authentic high-speed rail options. Since 1987, investors have attempted to introduce bullet train service to Texas. In 2014, a group organized under the name Texas Central launched the most recent attempt to connect Dallas to Houston with a bullet train that travels more than 200 … Read more
Denver International Airport has been awarded another $26.6 million in federal funding to fuel ongoing work to update the ultra-busy facility’s baggage handling system. U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette announced the latest round of grant funding for baggage system upgrades — work that’s part of a $500 million contract at DIA — in a news release … Read more
Image: Ohio DOT An arm within the U.S. Department of Transportation called the Federal Highway Administration has declared that joke time is over. New guidance has been issued on interstate traffic-safety messages: “Signs should avoid language that uses pop-culture references or humor.” These DOT punks say the signs can be distracting and should only be … Read more
Photo: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise (Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has announced that only 1.2 percent of the 16.3 million flights scheduled last year were canceled, the lowest flight cancellation rate in at least a decade. Cancellations were nearly cut in half compared to 2022, when the rate was 2.3 percent. The … Read more
The federal government will provide $500,000 in seed money to help kick-start construction of Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail project between Fort Collins and Pueblo — a decision that brings the prospect of millions more in future funding. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration are set to announce that the rail … Read more
