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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey due to staffing shortages of air traffic controllers as the government shutdown continues, according to multiple reports.

The United States got another reminder this week that despite billions spent by the Biden administration, crucial components of American transportation infrastructure are running on outdated technology.

Six people were killed when a helicopter tour carrying a family of five from Spain crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claimed that the crew in the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with American Airlines Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport did not hear a message instructing them to “pass behind the” regional jet.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to suspend searches of passengers at airports and other places after a DOJ watchdog report found “concerns” over the way DEA officials were conducting the searches.

“Tens of thousands” of fully autonomous tractor-trailers are expected to haul freight on public roads in upcoming years.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The Exchange,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein responded to a question on high inflation around cars and transportation by stating that we have to push down on costs and “That also taps

For most Americans, Thanksgiving means family, feasting, and travel. Here at The Drill Down podcast, that means finding out that airlines have been speed-hiring new pilots, that some of them go nuts, and that the man directing the Biden administration’s lavish infrastructure spending used to funnel paving contracts to his cousin when he was mayor of New Orleans.

An Alaska Airlines plane veered toward a SkyWest Airlines plane Monday afternoon near Portland International Airport in Oregon amid stormy weather, causing transportation workers to hold their breaths.

A massive train derailment occurred in Arizona on Wednesday near Williams, resulting in a tangle of cars.

A train derailed Wednesday near Lancaster, Minnesota, while carrying some hazardous materials.

A passenger train slammed into a construction crane and derailed near The Hague in the early hours of Tuesday.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is heading to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday following former President Donald Trump’s visit to the affected area.

KNOP reported on the derailment of 31 Union Pacific train cars carrying coal near Gothenburg, Nebraska, in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

Several people were hurt when a plane hit a shuttle bus Friday at Los Angeles Airport, the third similar incident in the past month.

A “corrupt system” could be to blame for the mass system failure experienced Wednesday —  resulting in flights being temporarily grounded, spurring thousands of delays  — according to reports.

President Joe Biden praised Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday for his loyalty during an event in Kentucky celebrating the 2021 infrastructure bill that cost American taxpayers $1.2 trillion.

Vice President Kamala Harris struggled with her words once again while addressing transportation issues at the American Rescue Plan Workforce Development Summit on Wednesday. 

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot met with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to discuss ‘equitable’ transporation in crime-ridden Chicago.

The Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to reinstate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) broad-sweeping mask mandate for travel.

The Dow Transportation Index is down by more than 20 percent from its November high.

Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed over the weekend as travelers were trying to reach their destinations amid spring break travel.

Florida lawmakers have passed a bill that would prohibit government agencies from contracting with companies that transport illegal aliens.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed spending billions to continue building the California High-speed Rail Project to connect rural areas in the Central Valley.

Amtrak on Tuesday announced that the passenger railroad company with temporarily halt a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees after it warned of possible service reductions. 

If more people took trains, Joe Biden argued, it would save millions of barrels of oil and would reduce pollution.

Some workers of the Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM), Milan’s public transportation company, are threatening to strike as the mandatory coronavirus pass comes into force in Italian workplaces.

The multi-trillion dollar price tag on what the Democrats are calling regular and human “infrastructure” bills is in the headlines, but if the legislation passes the change, it will bring will come at a cost to the American way of life.

Connecticut will back out of the regional Transportation Climate Initiative after a pervasive outcry by taxpayers opposed to a new tax.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon that Americans were using the “wrong” forms of transportation — a problem he said President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would fix.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Wednesday the Biden’s administration’s infrastructure bill is “like a trojan horse” in reference to the contents of the legislation. 

Top Democrat senators asked President Joe Biden Tuesday to include direct payment stimulus checks in the forthcoming transportation legislation in which the president will announce Wednesday.

President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno declared a 60-day state of emergency on Thursday after transportation workers and leftist groups began rioting against the repeal of a decades-old government gasoline subsidy.

In its latest filing for its initial public offering, the rideshare company Uber Technologies made a bold prediction: People are going to prefer riding scooters around town to riding in cars during rush hours.

“While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter. 

The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, spent $133 million on a state-of-the-art electric bus system only to see it go bust, according to a report released Sunday.