Jim Watts

A bipartisan proposal for national infrastructure bank funded by $50 billion of 100-year taxable bonds is a bad idea, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

The federal Department of Transportation signs off on an $840 million loan to a seven-county toll road system around Houston.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority picks four finalists for next phase of $5.7 billion light rail extension to Dulles International Airport.

The hot Texas economy is spurring operators of the state's airports and seaports to provide new infrastructure to accommodate the growing state.

The thousands of airline flights cancelled this winter due to severe weather may affect some airports' revenues and cost budgets, Fitch Ratings said.

The head of Amtrak said the rapidly depleting federal Highway Trust Fund should be replaced with a Transportation Trust Fund that can invest in rail as well as highways.

Passage of a new federal highway funding bill will require local officials to school Congress, says House Transportation Committee chair Bill Shuster, R-Pa.

Proposed federal legislation would revive state infrastructure banks as a funding option for local transportation projects.

The current U.S. transportation secretary and his predecessor on Thursday each separately warned about the dangers of letting the Highway Trust Fund become insolvent on or before the end of fiscal 2014.

Bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators have joined 50 House members to support a proposed national infrastructure bank funded with $50 billion of 1% bonds.

DOT expects the main federal highway infrastructure fund to run dry in August and post a $100 million deficit before the end of the fiscal year.

Senate Banking Committee chairman warns that Congress must act to protect the main source of federal transportation funding before it dries up.

A state court ruling stopping California from selling $8 billion of bonds for high-speed rail could result in a cutoff of billion in federal matching funds as well.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday said he expects to have a new funding law for highways, ports, bridges and transit in place before the current one expires on Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2014.

More state transportation P3 projects are on the horizon for 2014 due to declines in state and federal funding streams, Fitch said in a report

Eleven U.S. cities are among the first in the 33 of 100 in the world picked by the Rockefeller Foundation to receive financial assistance in developing more-resilient infrastructure to resist catastrophic events.

Maryland has selected four international construction consortiums to submit proposals to build, maintain and operate the proposed $2.2 billion Purple Line light-rail system that would connect Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties.

Lawmakers next Tuesday will begin considering reauthorizing the federal surface transportation funding program at a hearing held by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

President Obama's top economic advisor urges Congress to enter into a "grand bargain on jobs" in exchange for national infrastructure bank.

U.S. port infrastructure projects may get some breathing room as another delay looms for Panama Canal expansion.