Transportation

Advocates of passenger rail service in Northern Ontario have stepped up their lobby efforts with the formation of the Northern and Eastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN).

New construction at Greater Sudbury airport is making it a beehive of activity again.

Bombardier Transportation Canada has been fined $280,000 in a Thunder Bay court for two separate accidents last year that injured workers at its Thunder Bay passenger rail car plant.

The unions of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) insist no one is working on any option other than divestment of the North Bay -headquartered Crown agency.

Porter Airlines travellers will be happy to know that construction of the pedestrian tunnel connecting downtown Toronto to Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island is halfway complete. The Toronto Port Authority made the announcement in an Aug.

Abdelhamid Tayebi is the first to admit he’s no authority on fighting forest fires.

A Thunder Bay entrepreneur has developed an innovative new consumer product for the trailer towing market.

After years of research, Thunder Bay ’s Aerovate Inc. will flight-test its variable-pitch propeller system this summer, with the goal of bringing the technology to market this fall.

Icelandair and Porter Airlines have signed an interline agreement that will benefit passengers connecting between North America and more than 20 Icelandair destinations throughout Europe.

A pair of northern airports is receiving close to $4 million in funding from the federal government to make safety improvements.