At this week's Urban Transportation Summit, Translink's Ian Jarvis talked about the City's Olympic achievments in the transportation realm. The Games have certainly done a lot for transit in Vancouver [...]

The federal government will invest $92 million over four years to the Retire Your Ride program, which encourages Canadians to scrap their cars. The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) is making [...]

The feds said funding announcements would start to come out ASAP, and it seems to have started. Ottawa is getting $376 million for a variety of public works projects, many of which are in the transportation [...]

Edmonton's not wasting the opportunity to fast track some projects in this economic climate. Yesterday, the province and federal government today announced up to $100 million each in funding transit initiatives [...]

As expected, Bombardier won the contract to build the TTC's new streetcars. The Montreal company beat out Siemens to win the $1.23-billion contract to build 204 cars-the biggest light-rail vehicle purchase [...]

Last week was a busy week for transit in the GTA and Hamilton (GTAH.) As many people will know from news reports, the Province of Ontario came through with historic funding for transit across the region [...]

As auto manufacturers struggle, the new funding for transit in Ontario is bringing work over to the rail side of the transportation spectrum. Thunder Bay's Bombardier plant will be filling orders for 20 [...]

Manitoba has somehow managed to balance its 2009 budget, increase its spending by 4.4 per cent and reduce debt payments for the year to $20 million (compared to $110 million last year). A small surplus [...]

The City of Ottawa has released a list of infrastructure priority projects. Once approved by Council, the city will submit what it's calling "ready-to-go infrastructure projects" to the feds for funding [...]

Construction boarding is up at Union Station today, finally. Renovations to Union Station, Toronto's transit hub, were on Minister Flaherty's list of Toronto projects to be fast-tracked. Federal Transportation [...]