To help teen drivers navigate this year's "100 Deadliest Days" — that is, the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day — the National Safety Council (NSC) has enlisted parents to be the primary influence for steering novice drivers during the summer months.
Six weeks since the brand new stretch of toll highway built along US-301 was opened to traffic, many of its target users have been found to be bypassing that roadway.
The full closure of the St. Georges Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 13 over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in southern New Castle County, will be lifted by January 31, 2019, as necessary rehabilitation of that span is completed on schedule, weather permitting.
As Teen Driver Safety Week continues across Delaware and the nation, local and regional stakeholders are emphasizing the importance of adults' interaction with a novice driver's development behind the wheel and on the open road.
A gas tax increase instituted in New Jersey in 2016 translated to a noticeable change in gas-buying habits for neighboring states, according to data released Thursday by AAA Mid-Atlantic.
A regularly used access ramp to southbound Interstate 295 near New Castle was scheduled to be fully shut off to traffic on Tuesday, as the next phase for the multi-year reconstruction project along the corridor.
The damage which a tropical cyclone poses to property extends far beyond when it has made landfall, a leading source of used vehicle history information for buyers and sellers warned in the wake of this month's Hurricane Florence.
The exhaust from diesel school buses can pose a serious risk to children's health, according to a leading global technology group which specializes in the manufacture of high-tech sensors for automotive and other applications.
An often flooded portion of Airport Road, off the exit from Interstate 95 in Churchmans Marsh, might remain open to traffic more consistently, if recent repairs to nearby infrastructure prove to be successful.
A roadway resurfacing project in Newark will soon present a new travel configuration for motorists and multi-modal users alike.
Concerns about safety and mobility at a major intersection south of Newark has presented several proposals for reconfiguration of the problematic area.
Delaware State Police are investigating a crash that resulted in an overturned truck on Route 141 southbound just outside of Belvedere.
Nearly a dozen proposed, and progressing, roadway projects will be the focus of a transportation forum in Wilmington on Wednesday night, as planners seek to promote public comment at related, upcoming workshops.
A long-term closure of a portion of Route 141, near Barley Mill Plaza, has remained on schedule almost three months later, despite setbacks due to springtime weather.
The morning commute began with a cluck on Wednesday.
A two-vehicle wreck on northbound State Route 1 at the Route 273 interchange created quite the mess for morning commuters and environmental cleanup crews on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.
The region's foremost energy company recently introduced an incentive program designed to help advance electric vehicle (EV) technology across Delaware and Maryland.
If travel plans for Memorial Day weekend is any indication, the forecast for the forthcoming summer travel season should also be "mostly sunny."
Millions of motorists travel across the Delaware Memorial Bridge annually and, for nearly all of them, navigating from one side of the Delaware River to the other is hardly fraught with anxiety.
An accident launching a 43-year-old man from his trike motorcycle is finally clear after roughly two hours and 45 minutes worth of northbound traffic on Route 141 being forced to exit onto Route 4.
A nighttime closure of multiple lanes on the interstate in New Castle County was announced this week by the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), to be implemented for the week of April 16 through April 20.
What was originally scheduled as a 45-day closure for the full deck replacement of the Basin Road bridge over US Route 13, near New Castle, finally lifted more than 120 days later.
A late night crash on Interstate 95 in Wilmington on Sunday caused excessive damage to sections of a jersey barrier, prompting a closure of travel lanes in the immediate area.
Replacement of a crumbled stretch of Route 141 begins a period of prolonged restrictions next week, as the multi-phase project resumes near Barley Mill Plaza.
An accident on westbound Naamans Road just before the intersection of Naamans and Shipley roads sends one to the hospital in an ambulance.Â
The oldest bridge that spans the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, the dated St. Georges Bridge, won't be open to multi-modal traffic at the end of 2018.
A brief, yet noticeable, break in continuous commuter rail service between Spotsylvania, Virginia, and New London, Connecticut, has been a long term focus for a transportation planning agency in Delaware, as it considered options to permanently eliminate the void.
Winter weather makes potholes and, when those potholes become craters, the Delaware Department of Transportation springs a closure.
The rehabilitation of the Basin Road Bridge, near New Castle, notched an important milestone during the final week of 2017, prompting a related closure for the new year.
Due to a water main break at the intersection of West Cleveland Avenue and New London Road in Newark Sunday, motorists should expect detours and congestion in the area.
You can expect some traffic delays on SR 896 / Northbound College Avenue near the University of Delaware.
A bridge rehabilitation project on northbound Interstate 95, north of Wilmington, will place an around-the-clock lane closure and inconvenient rush hour delays for commuters.
Necessity is truly the mother of invention, especially when one considers the tragic consequences from a growing problem.
WDEL's Road Scholar: Safety, capacity issues prompt improvements at Old Baltimore Pike intersections
Two crossings in Pencader Hundred--which have become problematic for motorists---were the subject of a recent public workshop that unveiled plans to remedy them.
The replacement of a crumbling bridge deck, a job that had long been postponed for shorter-term quick fixes, was the subject of a recent public workshop advising residents and commuters of the impending closure.
On Friday, a number of road closures will accompany the funeral services for Delaware State Police Cpl. Stephen J. Ballard as the state pays its respects to the fallen officer at Wilmington's Chase Center on the Riverfront.Â
A lightly traveled collector road east of Odessa could face less traffic than it has ever seen, in large part due to environmental issues that have made regular, safe passage of it difficult to sustain.
The effects of time take a terrible toll on highway infrastructure, and an area of heavy travel in mid-New Castle County had its number called when ground was recently broken, quite literally, to erase the damage it had sustained.
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) commented recently on the structural integrity of a well-traveled crossing along an important northern Delaware corridor.
The long wait for expansion of Conchester Highway---a 6.7 mile, two-lane corridor in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, extending between US-1 and Interstate 95---began the first of its two-phase, multi-year widening project earlier in 2017.
Leveling the landscape of how auto insurance policies are priced out. That's the aim of new legislation recently introduced in the Delaware General Assembly.
If you're the adventurous type when it comes to winter weather--or perhaps just considered essential personnel--AAA Mid-Atlantic reminded drivers that safety starts before and lasts beyond a winter storm.
A four-way crossing on the north side of Middletown, located at the intersection of Marl Pit Road and Cedar Lane Road, has been a commuter's nightmare during peak travel times, and was recently the subject of a public workshop.Â
The world's traffic is a mess.
Younger millennials are tagged a forgettable distinction, based upon findings from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
As visitors of Wilmington and commuters around the city's train station have known, the arrangement for public transportation and on-site parking had never been ideal.
A road realignment project south of Bear will continue to churn along, despite unforeseen setbacks and an evolving work phase schedule.
The road to cleaner emissions in Delaware has been significantly helped by both technological advances for alternative fuel, as well as through a simple program designed to deliver savings to the end-user's bottom line.
A speed limit increase was instituted on two corridors in the south Dover area during the week of January 9, 2017.
A man hit by a car on Wilmington's South Market Street Bridge has died of his injuries.
A New Jersey woman is "lucky to be alive," according to a witness at the scene of a chain reaction crash on southbound I-95 this morning near Newport.