The future of transportation in Scottsdale, including light rail, will be considered closely Tuesday during a study session of the City Council. City staff are slated to provide the council with an update on the status of the city’s Transportation Master Plan.

The future of transportation in Scottsdale, including light rail, will be considered closely Tuesday during a study session of the City Council. City staff are slated to provide the council with an update on the status of the city’s Transportation Master Plan.

Faced with a $6.6 billion highway funding deficit and a $1.7 billion bus and light-rail money shortfall, the Maricopa Association of Governments, the Arizona Department of Transportation and Valley Metro met Tuesday night to get the public’s feedback on proposed changes to a 20-year Maricopa County regional transportation plan to close the gap.

The Maricopa Association of Governments has an opportunity today to correct several serious flaws in its 20-year transportation plan for the Valley. With so much at stake — $17.1 billion and our ability to get around — it is imperative that MAG's Transportation Policy Committee eliminate the defects when it meets today to approve the plan.

Do what’s already on the books. Do a little more than planned. Or go for a massive and costly expansion of Scottsdale’s transportation system over the next two decades.

Do what’s already on the books. Do a little more than planned. Or go for a massive and costly expansion of Scottsdale’s transportation system over the next two decades.

Chandler is seeking applications from non-profit groups or agencies interested in providing transportation assistance to disabled and low-income veterans.

Campaign tensions boiled over, briefly but vigorously, at Tuesday's Gilbert Town Council meeting as two mayoral candidates argued over the best way to cut back on transportation costs.

Decision-makers have known for months the bad economy has gutted Proposition 400, the 20-year half-cent transportation sales tax passed by Maricopa County voters in 2004. And now the bill has come due.

The Maricopa Association of Governments is planning for a long-anticipated population explosion with new freeways and highways in metropolitan Phoenix that would serve an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

Gov. Janet Napolitano wants to battle the “time tax” of congestion by having voters approve a statewide plan for highways, transit and a Phoenix-to-Tucson rail line.

Transportation in America was once an engine of progress and an inspiration for the future. Railroads opened the West and automobiles brought new mobility for a footloose nation after World War II.

WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, who helped rebuild confidence in U.S. airports and flying after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Friday he's leaving the Bush administration.

PHILADELPHIA - The nation's top transportation official ordered an investigation of two airlines that canceled hundreds of flights over the holiday weekend because of computer and staffing problems, stranding thousands of travelers.

There may be three key components driving transportation management in Maricopa, but according to three department heads, it is anything but easy as 1-2-3.

Phoenix is a sprawled city making mass transit difficult for its residents, but Arizona State University officials hope to encourage students to be more sustainable in their transportation choices.

Phoenix is a sprawled city making mass transit difficult for its residents, but Arizona State University officials hope to encourage students to be more sustainable in their transportation choices.

As snow fell and rush-hour gridlock worsened in metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul, bus driver James Geiger couldn't see the road markings beneath the snow and slush -- but he kept rolling right down the shoulder.

PHOENIX - Business leaders and others are putting the final touches on a proposed ballot measure that would increase the state's sales tax by a penny to raise billions of dollars for transportation projects, a leader of the effort said Monday.

Pinal County has built itself into a corner over the past decade by allowing Hunt Highway to become the lifeline connecting some 46,000 people to the jobs that the corridor between Queen Creek and Florence still lacks.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn lower court rulings that require Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to provide transportation when pregnant jail inmates want abortions.

In plotting out future north-south routes between Western Pinal County and Maricopa County, planners working on the Hidden Valley Transportation Framework study are stuck between a tribe and some sheep.

A new leadership group in Pinal County sees a fastclosing window of opportunity to locate new transportation corridors in the area.