Roughly 6.6% of flights in the U.S. were delayed on Thursday due to absences from air traffic controllers, according to Reuters. That’s only a little worse than the average, which sits at 5%. But it’s about to get much worse, if history is any guide. Previously, that number has hit 53% in previous government shutdowns. […]
Trump’s DOT Threatens to Pull Funding for California’s High-Speed Rail
California’s long-promised high-speed train project, first approved in 2008, has hit lots of roadblocks in its development process, and now it may be looking at the end of the road. The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation released a report this week that does not paint a pretty picture of the project, and DOT head Sean […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife’s Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have […]