Transportation

By Kelly Louiseize Worried Cochrane residents have raised red flags about the current and future treatment of passenger rail service in the region.

Four North Shore towns are collaborating on a proposal to restore permanent air service between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie.

Confederation College held a ground-breaking ceremony at the site of the proposed new Aviation Centre of Excellence. The $10-million dollar facility will increase the number of students in the aviation program from 275 to 350.

By Gianni Ubriaco Each year, trucks cross the Canada-U.S. border over 13 million times; that is approximately one truck every 2.5 seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

By Ian Ross If North Bay and Sault Ste.

By IAN ROSS A Dunnville aircraft maintenance company has set up a training facility near the Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport. TNC Aircraft Rebuilding Inc.

By Ian Ross A joint senior management and labour group trying to save the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) and passenger rail service from privatization are putting the final touches on a plan to re-invigorate the money-losing Crown

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada blames poor track maintenance and untrained inspectors at Ontario Northland Railway for last year's 29-car derailment in Temagami that spilled sulphuric acid into a nearby river.

Northerners are still going strong in their fight to save the Northlander passenger rail service.

Bombardier Aerospace has temporarily suspended production of fire-fighting aircraft at its North Bay assembly plant.