Jim Watts

Report from GAO finds states challenged by need to fund bridge projects from limited resources.

Planners for a 10-county region around Nashville have approved a 25-year, $6 billion transit program.

Oregon’s road user task force wants state lawmakers to expand its existing vehicle-miles-traveled fee system.

West Virginia will lose $85 million of revenues per year if tolls are removed from state’s turnpike in 2019.

Arkansas will study whether tolled lanes are the best way to finance a 14-mile segment of a new interstate highway.

Wisconsin lawmakers are skeptical of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $6.5 billion, two-year transportation budget.

San Diego will build an 11-mile extension of its Blue Line light rail system with a $1 billion federal transit grant.

Funding provided by $200 billion of transit initiatives on November ballots would be big investment boost for public transportation.

Central Texas transportation planning agency is looking into a proposed aerial tramway system in Austin.

States are expected to use almost $800 million of new federal grants aimed at smooth freight shipments to leverage another $3.6 billion of infrastructure investments from other sources.