Duluth, Minn With a vote of 7–1, the Duluth City Council approves the ride sharing ordinance to allow transportation such as Uber and Lyft to operate within the city. In about 30 days everyone that lives in Duluth or visits will have the choice of what transportation they prefer. Nearly all city council members spoke in favor of the ordinance….
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, would like to remind motorists to be cautious if traveling in what could be hazardous conditions. High winds and drifting snow are expected to make driving very difficult this weekend.
Iron ore and grain shipping have increased over last year’s rates
Road builders, local governments, business leaders, agricultural interests, and environmentalists, are all getting the opportunity to weigh in on how to pay for improving Wisconsin’s roads.
Much of the Northland was developed through the shipping and rail industries.
Winter roads can be dangerous in a car, and even less safe on a motorcycle
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has released a new report, Better, Faster, Lower Cost: An Efficiency Report from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The report itemizes WisDOT initiatives that it has implemented in order to enhance performance and reduce cost in all the department’s functional areas.
Two Twin Cities area high school students have died and a third has been injured in a traffic crash.
There were 440 DWI arrests across Minnesota last weekend and extra impaired driving enforcement runs through December 30th
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation recently changed its messaging format for AMBER and Silver Alerts in an effort to provide drivers with pertinent information to help law enforcement and families locate endangered children and missing adults with cognitive impairment.
The Minnesota State Patrol reports that one person is dead after a crash that happened on Highway 169, around 7:45 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Many extra drivers will be on the roads this weekend and within the next month.
Around 1:00 p.m., on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Ironwood Public Safety Department responded to a report of a head-on collision at U.S. 2 and Luxmore Streets. Officers arrived, as EMS was on scene rendering aid to one male victim.
The Duluth Transit Authority is once again partnering with the College of St. Scholastica and National Bank of Commerce to offer passengers free bus rides on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 24, 2016.
Things seem to be running as normal for the airport but for those choosing to stay put on the ground, you may want to keep a close eye on this storm.A second storm is set to hit a wide array of the upper mid-west making traveling a little more worrisome for thousands that are set to hit the roadways.
A half-million dollar pavement reconstruction project is happening at Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, the Gobble Gallop Races will be held in downtown Duluth.
On Friday, November 18, 2016 around 12:15 p.m., Carlton County received the report of a two vehicle crash on County Road 1 near Leimer Road in Silver Brook Township.
After being under construction for four months, 4th Street in Duluth has reopened.
Travel is not advised in northern Aitkin, central St. Louis, Itasca, and southern Koochiching counties, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation advises motorists traveling in northeastern Minnesota to slow down and use extra caution.
Two U.S. officials say the engineer of a commuter train that slammed into a New Jersey station at double the speed limit, killing one woman, suffered form un-diagnosed sleep apnea. One of the officials says investigators are looking at it as a potential cause.
The Christmas City of the North Parade will be held in Downtown Duluth, on Friday, November 18. The parade will travel down Superior Street from 9th Avenue East to 4th Avenue West starting at 6:25 p.m.
Traffic Incident Response Week is a time to recognize emergency responders and their tireless effort to help save lives at the scenes of traffic incidents across the country. Every year hundreds of emergency responders representing fire, law enforcement, emergency medical services, towing, and transportation agencies lose their lives while responding to incidents.
Primrose retirement community is doing their part to get voters to the polls.
Hundreds of maritime enthusiasts gathered today at the DECC for the 29th annual gales of November
Governor Mark Dayton, Tuesday night, called out House Republicans for blocking $105 million in transportation investments funded by the federal FAST Act. This move will block more than 28 highway, road, and bridge projects in over a dozen communities across Minnesota.
A train has derailed in the Town of Superior and authorities are working to clean a flammable chemical leak.
The Oliver Bridge is still undergoing construction, but that will be completed soon
Motorists should watch for deer in November, which is the peak time for deer-vehicle crashes in the state, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
The T-shaped intersection of Rice Lake Road and Airport Road re-opened to traffic today.
WIS 13 near Highbridge in Ashland County will reopen to all traffic, a month ahead of schedule. During the strong storms that tore through the region on July 11, two culverts washed out at Silver Creek and Trout Brook.
It’s been a deadly weekend on Minnesota roads with 10 people losing their lives since Thursday bringing the 2016 preliminary fatality count up to 307.
The Duluth Police Department issues a traffic advisory for the UMD Homecoming Parade, Saturday, October 15.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has temporarily suspended work on the Highway 169 Cross-Range Project near Taconite due to an unforeseen soil stability issue. Work is expected to resume sometime after October 31, 2016.
Duluth transportation authority has a new neighbor. Jefferson lines joins them at their downtown location. It’s centrally located on west Michigan street for an easier more convenient way to get from “a” to “b” here in the Twin Ports and Twin Cities.
A road construction project spanning more than 27 miles from the City of Orr to Crane Lake in northern St. Louis County is completed for the year.
Smells will be present during construction on Superior St. through the remainder of Fall. The smell is due to sewer work being done prior to road construction in the near future.
Trains are intriguing for all ages and the Northland has quite a few to enjoy.
Shorter daylight hours in fall increase the concern for vehicle versus pedestrian accidents and in turn makes fall the deadliest months of the year for such accidents.Because of these accidents the Minnesota department of transportation wants to raise awareness for motorist and pedestrians to respect all laws and use common sense to insure the safest environment possible during the fall months.
71 meetings were held simultaneously across Wisconsin to raise awareness of growing transportation costs across the state. Local officials said the funding process needs to be fixed.
A passenger train from Grand Forks crashed at the depot in Duluth in 1915. It skipped a bumper, but no one was injured in the accident.
Gov. Scott Walker is taking the unusual step of sending a public letter to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos encouraging the fellow Republican to work on finding a solution to roads funding.
More than 120 snowplow operators from the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the city of Minneapolis are training the next two weeks at Camp Ripley near Little Falls to learn how to handle the winter ahead.
MnDOT is still looking for public input on the Can of Worms project. They hope to unveil preliminary plans in November.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, along with Representative Rick Nolan, announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Ely Municipal Airport a grand of $2,836,567 for infrastructure improvements.
Motorists are urged to use extra caution this weekend along the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers as thousands of motorcyclists take to the road for the Fall Flood Run.
Governor Scott Walker is defending his administration’s road-funding proposal.
According to a recently completed observational survey conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), seat belt use in Wisconsin has reached an all time high of more than 88 percent.
Beginning September 19th, the City of Superior and Douglas County will be working in coordination to perform a bridge joint repair on E 2nd Street (Hwy 53) at the viaduct between 23rd and 27th Avenues East.
