Jim Watts

Requests for $500 million of federal TIGER grants available in fiscal 2015 total $9.8 billion, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.

Senators avoided an Aug. 1 shutdown of highway projects by passing the House’s three-month HTF extension.

The $8 billion, three-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund avoids a project shutdown in August.

Credits of the U.S. publicly owned airport sector and the crucial role of airport management are undervalued by the major ratings agencies despite their blemish-proof record, Kroll Bond Rating Agency said in a new report.

House plans to leave for a long recess Wednesday after voting on a 90-day extension of federal highway funding.

Revenue offsets in the Senate's six-year transportation funding bill are $1 billion short of proposed general fund transfers.

Senate leaders hope to vote on a $300 billion transportation bill by mid-week as funding cutoff looms.

Senate debate gets under way on $317 billion, six-year transportation bill after Democrats soften opposition to revenue measures.

House leaders from both parties say the Senate should drop a multiyear bill and adopt a short-term HTF extension.

The Senate will move forward with a compromise six-year transportation funding bill hammered out over the weekend in negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., despite a setback on a procedural vote on Tuesday.

Senate Republican leaders are working on a multiyear transportation bill that would resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by dedicating roughly $40 billion of additional revenue to it from a variety of sources.

Virginia will eliminate tolls on two tunnels under construction with $78 million saved by cancelling a P3 road project.

Senators are optimistic about passage next week of a multiyear transportation funding reauthorization measure.

The House on Wednesday voted 312 to 119 to approve a bill that would extend federal transportation funding through Dec. 18, with an $8.1 billion transfer from general funds to the Highway Trust Fund.

An $8 billion plan to stave off insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund would keep federal transportation funding flowing to states through Dec. 18.

House Republican leaders are putting together an $8 billion, five-month bailout of the Highway Trust Fund through the end of 2015.

A bipartisan group of nine House members wants a winner-take-all vote on proposed transportation revenue measures.

Senate will take up a highway funding bill next week but revenue source remains contentious.

Revenues generated from an overhaul of the corporate tax code could fund highways, Senate report says.

Gas prices fell in four of the six states with gasoline tax increases taking effect July 1, survey finds.