Transportation

Commercial airline service at the Worcester Regional Airport will cease going into October, as JetBlue has been non-committal as to when it will resume flights to and from Central Massachusetts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

A planned overhaul of the Massachusetts Turnpike and I-495 interchange got a major boost Wednesday with an announced $21-million federal grant.

The Worcester Regional Airport may be without any commercial service as soon as Oct. 1, with Delta Air Lines planning to suspend service to the city next month.

With hopes of returning to its pre-pandemic momentum, Massport and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce are conducting a survey of area business leaders soliciting information about how they use the airport.

As an essential business dedicated to cleaning oil spills and disposing of hazardous waste, New England Disposal Technologies, Inc. of Sutton was primed to add coronavirus disinfecting to its offered services. 

The Worcester Regional Airport will receive $5.35 million from the Federal Aviation Administration to rehabilitate a runway, the FAA announced Tuesday. The funding is part of a $273-million pool of airport safety and infrastructure grants.

The Senate turned back efforts Thursday to remove new municipal taxing powers from a transportation bond bill, rejecting an amendment from Democrat Sen. Diana DiZoglio that would have scrapped plans for binding regional ballot initiatives.

Massachusetts will become the second state ever to pursue legal action against ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft over their classification of workers, a system that Attorney General Maura Healey argues leaves almost 200,000 drivers without access to key employment benefits.

The average gas price in Massachusetts is now $2.12 per gallon, up two cents from last week, according to AAA Northeast.

The Senate will not take up a House-approved, half billion-dollar package of transportation tax and fee increases this lawmaking session, instead focusing attention on an omnibus borrowing bill that the Senate's Transportation Committee chairman believes can be fully funded without new revenues.