Transportation

The City of Worcester is implementing a multi-phased parking improvement plan aimed at making parking easier, beginning with the Canal District, the City announced Monday.

Breeze Airways, which has yet to officially start running flights, has angled itself as an airline interested in serving customers in less busy markets.

The average Massachusetts gasoline price on Monday was $2.76 a gallon of regular unleaded, a 1-cent increase from last week, according to travel association AAA Northeast. 

Massachusetts average gasoline prices on Monday had increased to $2.75 a gallon of regular unleaded, up from last week’s $2.69. 

MassDevelopment has awarded $236,188 in transportation grants to six Central Mass. organizations through its Taxi, Livery, and Hackney Transportation Partnerships Grant Program, the agency announced on Thursday.

This week, Massachusetts gasoline prices increased again, rising up to $2.69 per gallon of regular unleaded, comparatively to last week’s $2.64.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced Monday its award of $725,418 in Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program grants for five cities in Central Massachusetts to take initiative on challenges during the winter months. 

March will likely bring Massachusetts’ most expensive gasoline prices in 2021, the travel association AAA Northeast predicted on Monday.

Busek Co. of Natick, a maker of in-space propulsion, sensors and power systems, has shipped its first flight BHT-600 Hall effect thruster system, a system designed to bring small satellites from low earth orbit into geosynchronous orbit.

This week’s gasoline prices in Massachusetts stand at $2.56 per gallon of regular unleaded, up 9 cents from a week ago, where the average was $2.47, according to the travel association AAA Northeast.