Jim Watts

Proposals to keep federal transportation funding at current levels will worsen the existing backlog of transit system deferred maintenance.

The Senate passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Thursday by 91-7, two days after the House approved it.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins infrastructure investor Meridiam North America as senior advisor.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015 transportation budget that keeps federal highway funding at 2014 levels.

The House passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Tuesday that funds 34 port, inland waterway, and dam projects.

Airport infrastructure public-private partnerships are often stymied by a web of competing local interests, aviation advocates told a House P3 panel.

President Obama used his weekly address to criticize House Republicans for chopping the TIGER grant program to $100 million in 2015.

Congress is expected to pass a compromise water infrastructure bill this week that funds 34 projects totaling $12 billion.

Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee gave its unanimous approval to six-year bill authorizing $242 billion of federal highway funding.

President Obama pressed Congress to quickly increase spending on transportation infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at a bridge project work site.

The draft transportation bill released by a key Senate committee falls far short of funding needs by proposing only $242.4 billion for road projects over six years, administration officials and highway industry experts are warning.

The draft transportation bill released late Monday night by a Senate committee calls for $242.4 billion of federal funding for highway projects over six years.

Lawmakers have reconciled differences in House and Senate versions of a water infrastructure bill that would authorize $8 billion of federal funding.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has announced that she will introduce a multiyear transportation reauthorization bill on Thursday.

Sen. Barbara Boxer said the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin work next week on a transportation bill that keeps spending at current levels plus inflation.

State transportation departments face a $47 billion cut in federal funding in fiscal 2015 if Congress fails to shore up the Highway Trust Fund.

Approval of a $1.9 billion federal transportation loan for the $5.7 billion Silver Line rail extension to Washington's Dulles Airport is the largest ever awarded.

Tolling and transit advocates praise the $302 billion transportation legislation now in Congress, but others doubt lawmakers will act before the November elections.

President Obama sent to Congress a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation funding bill that ends the prohibition on tolling existing interstate highways.

Wells Fargo links limited supply of transportation infrastructure bonds to uncertainty over federal funding.