Jim Watts

Virginia will recoup $149 million of the more than $280 million the state spent on a cancelled $1.4 billion toll road P3.

Washington State's compromise 16-year, $16 billion transportation plan includes gasoline tax increase and $5.3 billion of state GO bonds.

Gasoline taxes go up July 1 in six states to fund local highway projects while federal gasoline tax remains at 1993 level.

States are making plans for another short-term extension or a possible cutoff of federal transportation funding on July 31.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan gives preliminary approval to progress on halted $2 billion Purple Line P3 light rail project.

Allowing states to levy tolls on interstates would solve the revenue problem hobbling highway P3s, advocates tell Senate Finance Committee.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee adopted a six-year highway bill with a 4.6% boost in federal funding.

The Senate Environment and Public Work Committee’s six-year transportation proposal would provide about $43 billion a year of federal highway funding.

A gasoline tax increase is not going to be the revenue solution for a multiyear highway bill, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Thursday.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has ruled out raising the federal gas tax to support a multiyear transportation funding bills and says another short-term fix for the Highway Trust Fund is inevitable.

Senate Democrats said they want progress on a highway bill before the current short-term fix expires July 31.

House Democrats seek Republican support for multiyear highway bill in exchange for passage of multinational trade pact.

This week to see first House and Senate committee hearings in five years on sustainable options for the Highway Trust Fund.

Sponsors say a newly introduced measure to slash the federal gasoline tax would give the states flexibility in transportation funding.

House Democrats and a conservation think tank line up to oppose a transportation appropriations bill that freezes highway funding.

Maryland wants to investigate the feasibility of a magnetic levitation train between Baltimore and Washington.

Virginia will decide in November whether to proceed with $3 billion toll lane project as P3 or use conventional financing.

The continuing series of short-term road funding fixes is harming small businesses, owners and advocates say.

President Obama threatens to veto a House committee's fiscal 2016 transportation appropriations bill over low funding levels.

Fitch says states will delay transportation projects due to uncertainty over the most recent short-term extension of the federal HTF.