FedEx to stop making ground deliveries for Amazon
The announcement Wednesday that FedEx would no longer make ground deliveries for Amazon comes two months after the delivery company said it was terminating its air delivery contract with Amazon.
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Four years in, Blue Indy car-sharing service still stuck in the red
Blue Indy has yet to see a money-making year, and the company’s top Indianapolis official says he can’t predict when that will happen.
Indiana gets $17M in latest round of U.S. airport grants
The latest round of airport infrastructure grants includes $4.74 million to Indianapolis International Airport for taxiway and apron rehabilitation and security enhancements.
Port authority to receive $289,000 for Nickel Plate track removal
Salt Lake City-based A&K Railroad Materials Inc. submitted the winning bid out of five bidders who responded to a request for proposals to remove 22 miles of track from Indianapolis to Noblesville and sell the materials for scrap.
IPS wants high schoolers to take IndyGo instead of yellow school buses
It’s unclear, however, how many high school students will be able to rely on the city’s long-starved transit system to get to school if the district eventually stops providing buses.
INDOT buying houses for U.S. 31 upgrades in Tipton County
Property records show the agency has bought 12 properties totaling more than 17 acres over the past year between Indiana 28 and the Tipton-Howard county line.
Fees from scooters to pay for city bicycle infrastructure improvements
Mayor Joe Hogsett and the Department of Public Works on Thursday announced a plan to spend about $450,000 that has been collected by scooter companies since last year on so-called “neighborways” in Indianapolis.
U.S. truck driver shortage on course to double in decade
In addition to increasing pay, trucking companies are trying to recruit more women, young people and former military personnel.
Roundabouts planned for five Noblesville intersections
The five infrastructure projects along State Roads 32 and 38, plus other road improvements, will cost $16 million and take place in two phases.
VW, Ford team up to make autonomous, electric vehicles
Volkswagen will invest $2.6 billion into a Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle company that's mostly owned by Ford as the automakers deepen their partnership to develop driverless and electric vehicles in an ultra-competitive landscape.
Electric vehicle company puts Indiana factory plans on hold
An electric vehicle startup has halted plans to start production at a northern Indiana factory and hire more than 450 workers.
Closures planned for Interstate 65, I-70 in Indianapolis
The Indiana Department of Transportation is warning motorists it will close parts of Interstate 65 and I-70 in Indianapolis beginning this week to complete work delayed by recent rains.
Former Ford, Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca dies at age 94
Lee Iacocca, the automobile industry executive who helped launch the Mustang at Ford and save Chrysler from bankruptcy, died Tuesday. Amid his successes, Iacocca presided over one of Ford’s greatest fiascoes: the Pinto, which led to a landmark product-liability case in Indiana in 1979.
KAR leader Hallett ‘extremely happy’ with spinoff of IAA business unit
The separation of KAR Auction Services and Insurance Auto Auctions is already creating shareholder value, CEO Jim Hallett said.
Indianapolis-based food distributor adds Chicago-area company to its fold
Indianapolis-based IF&P, one of the largest food distributors in the Midwest, has ambitions to grow through more acquisitions like one announced this week.
IndyGo’s Purple Line, Blue Line to be delayed by year or more
The first phase of IndyGo’s bus rapid transit project, the Red Line, remains on schedule for a Sept. 1 debut.
Chief says shorthanded TSA will handle July 4 travel surge
TSA expects to screen about 12.1 million people between Wednesday and Sunday for the July 4 holiday period.
Administration moves to ease drive-time rules for truckers
President Donald Trump has made rolling back layers of regulatory oversight a top priority. At least a dozen transportation safety rules under development or already adopted were repealed, withdrawn, delayed or put on the back burner during Trump’s first year in office.
Judge orders railroad advocate, attorneys to pay Fishers $72,000
Hamilton Circuit Court Judge David Najjar found that attorneys for Fishers spent more than 230 hours defending the city against Save the Nickel Plate in a case he called “frivolous.”
Cleanup continuing at Indiana’s planned Ohio River port site
Gov. Eric Holcomb's office said the state has extended until the end of this year its option to buy up to 725 acres near Lawrenceburg, just west of the Indiana-Ohio state line.