The U.S. Transportation Department will announce on Monday it is offering an additional $184 million in payroll assistance to 158 more aviation manufacturing businesses. In September, the department offered $482.3 million to 313 aviation manufacturing businesses. The new offers include $17.5 million to BAE Systems Controls and about $13 million to both Airbus’s U.S arm…

Industry insiders and experts are predicting double-digit percentage price hikes on certain food and consumer goods in 2022, continuing the current trend of a rising cost of living. Canadians can expect to see a minimum 20 percent price increase on groceries and essential products, such as food, toilet paper, pharmaceuticals, home building materials, and gasoline…

More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year. Now Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee members are proposing a move to more quickly bring toll violators into compliance to help the debt-ridden turnpike. Currently, toll violators are subject to a suspended vehicle registration if they have at least six unpaid tolls, or total…

The operators of the Dakota Access pipeline will face $93,200 in fines due to safety violations, according to a Friday Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration notice. Energy Transfer, the company that operated the Dakota Access pipeline, violated regulations in at least six locations because the valves used for drainage of stormwater…

A bipartisan group of senators from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) on Saturday introduced a $303.5 billion surface transportation bill. The bill, if enacted, would reauthorize Department of Transportation (DOT) funding for highways, roads, and bridges which is due to expire in September. The proposed spending is 34 percent higher than that previously authorized…

San Clemente is preparing to withdraw from the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) in the midst of an ongoing three year-lawsuit over disagreements about a toll road built in the city. City council took its first step April 6, voting 4-1 to leave the joint powers authority (JPA) that forms the TCA. The split could come…

State policies that aim to reduce carbon emissions in California by minimizing driving will impact planned future projects of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), officials say. OCTA’s Director of Strategic Planning said at an April 12 meeting that state requirements designed to combat climate change aim to decrease the distance drivers travel and will…

Orange County’s next supervisor will be elected March 9, ending a hotly-contested campaign to fill the Board of Supervisors’ vacant District 2 seat. Candidates include: former state senator John Moorlach, Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo, Newport Beach Councilmember Kevin Muldoon, and tax attorney Janet Rappaport. As voters prepare to make…

With the special election for a vacant Orange County Board of Supervisors (BOS) seat approaching, March 9, The Epoch Times reached out to each candidate and asked about their infrastructure and transportation goals. More than $1 billion is spent every year on the county’s infrastructure improvement projects and public transit. The BOS oversees the public works department, and supervisors sit on the Orange County Transport…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to probe or prosecute former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao after it received a case referral from the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog that faulted her for four kinds of ethics violations, according to documents released this week. The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report (pdf), which…