Transportation

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.

What if you could catch a ride on the bus the same way you get a ride from Uber or Lyft? In the town of Wilson, North Carolina, you can, and other North Carolina towns are taking note.

Among other things, the extra dollars will go toward replacing aging vehicles and hiring additional operators. It’s expected that many of the new vehicles will be zero-emission, as the state pivots toward converting public fleets to be more environmentally friendly.

More than 150 drivers were absent late last week in Wake County, and Guilford County Schools had 76 drivers who were out Friday with COVID-19.

The three scooter companies coming to Raleigh later this summer have yet to be named.

The North Carolina General Assembly cut hundreds of millions from the state’s transportation budget in late June. While the funding bill received…