Transportation

Water Street will be closed to traffic from Walnut Street to Court Avenue on Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a city sewer project. Access to the Polk County Administration Building parking lot …

David Rose has been appointed by Gov. Terry Branstad to a four-year term on the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Transportation Commission. Rose, a native of Clinton, will fill the seat held by Wayne Sawtelle, whose …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) will shorten its D-Line route as proposed legislation threatens to cut state funding for the service. The downtown shuttle will continue to operate on its east-west route …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) unveiled its final fiscal year 2012 budget at a public meeting on Tuesday, where it projected a $1.35 million budget gap.

Assuming no changes were made at …

One auto manufacturer reported good news today while another again deals with bad news, according to Reuters.

General Motors Co. (GM) posted a profit of $4.7 billion for 2010, its first full-year profit since 2004, …

Gov. Terry Branstad today appointed Sioux City native Charese Yanney to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Transportation Commission.

Yanney is a former teacher who is now a partner at Guarantee Roofing, Siding and Insulation Co. …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) passed its fiscal year 2012 budget unanimously last night.

The budget projects a $1.35 million budget gap for the fiscal year, to be closed by using money …

Oil rose to its highest price in more than two years as Libya’s violent uprising threatened to disrupt exports from Africa’s third-biggest supplier and spread to other oil-producing nations in the Middle East, Bloomberg reported. …

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) Commission will approve its fiscal year 2012 fixed-route budget and tax levy rates at tonight’s monthly meeting at 5 p.m. at the DART offices, 1100 DART Way. …

The Iowa Department of Transportation on Thursday received $5 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration as part of its State of Good Repair Grant Program.

The funding will be split across …