Transportation

Since Porter Airlines touched down in Thunder Bay in 2009, they’ve been rewarded with a million passengers between the northwestern Ontario city and the regional airline’s hub at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

Passenger rail preservationists are facing a steep grade after Transport Canada pulled a critical federal subsidy to restore the northeastern Ontario service. Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau made it known during a trip to Sault Ste.

The Sault Ste. Marie Airport has received $360,868 for upgrades to its airside electrical power systems. The federal funding, announced July 20 by Transport Minister Marc Garneau, comes from the Airports Capital Assistance Program.

Aviation industry veteran Stephen Smith was named to the new board of directors of Wasaya Airways at its annual meeting in Thunder Bay.

Four-laning has been completed on another section of Highway 69. Eleven kilometres of road, stretching between north of Highway 64 and north of Highway 607 near the Municipality of French River is done and will soon be open to the public.

Ontario Northland in North Bay has been awarded a contract from CANARAIL to refurbish Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger rail cars.

The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is holding province-wide engagement sessions on intercommunity bus modernization in taking feedback from business, communities and residents on how to improve this transportation option.

A pair of reports on what may have caused the failure of the Nipigon River Bridge won’t be released until the fall, says the Ministry of Transportation.

Supporters of a cancelled passenger rail service are waiting on Ottawa to make good on a commitment to release a federal subsidy to allow a new railroader to take over operations on the Sault Ste. Marie-to-Hearst corridor.

The province is introducing mandatory entry-level training for Class A truck drivers, which will become effective July 1, 2017.