Jim Watts

A $2.3 billion transportation funding program was proposed for federal lands following closure of a disintegrating Washington bridge.

Bills that would put in place President Obama’s six-year, $487 billion transportation proposal or set up regional clearing-houses for public-private partnerships were recently introduced and are pending before Congress.

Special highways panel says West Virginia needs to increase transportation funding by $1.1 billion per year.

States have pulled back up to $2 billion of scheduled road projects due to uncertain federal transportation funding.

Few options that could provide enough revenue to increase transportation spending seem politically feasible, Moody’s says in new report.

Congressional study says airports lack adequate infrastructure because revenues for airport expansions and improvements are limited.

Congressional Democrats, White House may find it difficult to end short-term HTF extensions when latest one lapses.

The House voted 387 to 35 on a bill Tuesday night that would reauthorize surface transportation programs for another two months and avoid a cutoff of federal reimbursements to states for highway and transit projects during the busy construction season.

The House may vote Tuesday on a two-month extension of federal transportation funding that otherwise would end May 31.

A Senate proposal would stretch the current Highway Trust Fund extension to keep federal transportation dollars flowing.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee leaders plan June vote on six-year highway bill. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recommends a path for sustainable highway funding.

Lawmakers who vote to raise state gas taxes don't face an irate electorate at the next election, according to an analysis in seven states. Rep. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., introduced a bill to create a National Infrastructure Bank.

All federal transportation payments to states will stop as of June 1 unless Congress extends the short-term fix to the Highway Trust Fund before it expires May 31, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday in a letter to state transportation directors.

California has $80 billion of highway needs through 2025 with only $20 billion of available transportation funding.

A radio ad campaign targeting congressional leaders warns that inaction on the restoring the HTF imperils state highway and transit projects.

Senate Democrats slam Republican leadership over lack of ideas for long-term highway fix.

Finance chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch is looking for the $11 billion needed to keep the HTF solvent through 2015.

Lack of action on a long-term transportation funding bill “is a joke,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

Average gasoline consumption falls to a 30-year low, threatening revenues from the main source of state and federal transportation funding.

Oregon selects the vendors that will collect the vehicle data needed for the nation’s first pay-per-mile road usage program.