Transportation

Funding from the federal government is often tied to metrics. The US Department of Transportation says it may give preference to, “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”

The Biden Administration poured billions of federal dollars into road and rail development, including a new passenger train rail line from Raleigh to Richmond, Virginia.

In place of rotational busing, Durham Public Schools will implement family responsibility zones at 21 elementary schools. A proposal to implement express bus stops for three magnet schools will remain on hold until next school year.

The DPS school board held a special meeting Monday to discuss transportation issues and ask questions of administrative staff. The plans are not yet final, but here are some of the takeaways.

The High-Intensity Activated Crosswalk, or HAWK, signal technology assists people walking across marked crosswalks. It’s installed in only a few areas across North Carolina.

Many Durham Public School students didn't make it to school today, due to an absence of transportation workers. Transportation staff are among a group of workers at the district who received emails over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend announcing that their recent raises would be taken away.

Over the years, there have been plenty of efforts to bring back rail service, only for funding or political momentum to falter. But this time is different, rail advocates say.

The new runway 5-Left/23-Right replaces a 10,000-foot concrete landing strip built in the 1980s.

The North Carolina Senate wants to change the state’s “move over” traffic laws to protect people stranded on the roadside.

The town of Chapel Hill and its police department want to prevent all traffic and pedestrian-related deaths by 2031.