Transportation

As the Baltimore region struggles to emerge from a winter storm and arctic temperatures, entombed bus stops and sidewalks are creating difficulties — and danger — for public transit riders and pedestrians.

To chair, or not to chair? Baltimore residents turn to children’s kitchenettes, tiki torches and good old lawn chairs to preserve hard-won parking spots as the snowstorm dig-out from continues.

A tractor trailer crashed and jackknifed on Interstate 95 in Baltimore County, shutting down several lanes of traffic, traffic cameras show.

An Anne Arundel County sheriff’s deputy on Interstate 97 and two people on Interstate 95 in Harford County were hospitalized after airborne ice from another vehicle crashed through their windshields.

The state Department of Transportation’s grant program has promised up to $50,000 for impacted businesses along the Purple Line — a potential windfall as they struggle to stay afloat. But nearly all awards have been a fraction of that amount.

A daylong hearing should make clear what factors played the biggest role in causing last January’s midair collision near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

State officials issued five citations against a contractor that provides ground crew services for Spirit Airlines at BWI airport. The state’s investigation found that contractor AGI Ground did not have a written heat illness prevention plan.

Southwest Airlines passengers made their final boarding-time scrambles for seats on Monday as the carrier prepared to end the open-seating system that distinguished it from other airlines for more than half a century.

A tanker truck rolled over and leaked fuel onto Interstate 695 at Washington Boulevard in Baltimore County on Tuesday morning, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department.

Improving road conditions will allow the Maryland Transit Administration to restore some suspended bus routes Tuesday, the agency announced.

Sporadic sunshine could melt snow and ice on some patches of roadway, but wet areas are likely to refreeze in the Baltimore area, officials warn.

At Penn Station and BWI, travelers dealt with delays and cancellations of planes, trains and buses amid Winter Storm Fern. Not everyone minded.

Airport travelers with no Real ID can still fly, but it will cost $45 and additional time starting in February, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

More than 13,500 flights have been canceled across the U.S. since Saturday, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware.

Over 3,500 flights nationwide were delayed or canceled by Friday evening, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website.

As a snowstorm approaches Baltimore this weekend, you might want to think about moving your car before the city does it for you.

The final version of the Consolidated Transportation Program, a six-year capital spending vision updated as part of the governor’s budget each year and released Wednesday, is largely unchanged from its draft version.

A nondescript office park in Hanover serves as the design headquarters for the new Key Bridge. As many as 100 engineers and project managers work inside to orchestrate logistics, map out the bridge’s precise design, and estimate its cost and schedule.

Howard Street’s 24,000-foot former Greyhound bus station just got a makeover from its new owner: SquashWise, a community organization empowering Baltimore youth through the sport.

Their statement, however, did not specify a new timeline for construction of the Key Bridge.