Indy Connect will hold its first public forum Tuesday evening to begin the process of gathering public input on a regional
transportation plan that proposes raising taxes to build a light-rail line, improve bus service and expand roadways.
CEO Bryan Bedford remains at the helm, but shares of Republic Airways have fallen nearly 30 percent following the departure
of an executive deemed key to the operation
of the regional airline’s first two branded carriers, Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines.
The expanded service shuttling air travelers and airport workers to and from Indianapolis International Airport began Feb.
3, to the newly opened Fairfield Inn & Suites at West and Washington streets.
Backers of the plan
said the work by the Central Indiana Transit Task Force amounts to a crucial private-sector endorsement
needed to finally proceed with a regional transportation system.
After 30 years of government
studies of a regional transportation system, a private-sector group on Wednesday is set to unveil its own
plan that includes commuter rail and toll lanes added to congested interstate highways.
The AAA Hoosier Motor Club is closing its call center on Guion Road and consolidating operations with five other clubs.
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc. will shut down Lynx Aviation, a regional flying unit that operates Bombardier
Q400 propeller planes. The changes will mean 175 people will lose their jobs.
The Indianapolis trucking firm is not among the weaklings and, if anything, will benefit from additional fleet
failures to the
extent it diminishes industry capacity.
NAL Worldwide, which provides third-party logistics and supply-chain services, plans to close its Plainfield location March
31.
Work on another section of the Interstate 69 extension between Indianapolis and Evansville is expected to begin by April now
that the Federal Highway Administration has approved the project.
A plethora of experts like
Dan Collom are restoring the Moscow bridge, built in 1886 and destroyed by a tornado in 2008.
A proposed high-speed commuter rail line that would run through northern Indiana was left out of federal stimulus
grants announced this week.
The Indianapolis Colts’ second trip to the Super Bowl in Miami is scoring business for the locally based Ambassadair
travel club.
The bill would require the state’s Homeland Security agency to issue a permit for the transportation of radioactive materials
within Indiana.
The BMV said Tuesday it has started offering online driver’s license renewals at the agency’s Web site.
Company plans to close operations in Miamisburg, costing the southwest Ohio city 75 jobs.
Indianapolis trucking firm Celadon Group Inc. saw revenue rise to $127.2 million in its fiscal second quarter, although profit
fell to $1 million.
Greenwood Mayor Charles Henderson says his city is willing to pay up to $8 million toward construction of a new Interstate
65 interchange in order to speed up the project.
Converting the U.S. trucking industry to natural gas will benefit manufacturers including Columbus-based Cummins Inc., T. Boone Pickens says.
Wireless phone distributor Brightpoint Inc. is among the backers of a new logistics company that says it might employ 250 by 2012.
