Infrastructure

During the kickoff for the United for Infrastructure week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said he supported a one -year extension of current federal surface transportation funding.

The rating agency lowered the authority's transportation revenue bonds to A3 from A2, citing again the effects of the coronavirus.

The public-private partnership Alabama is using to build three new prisons is estimated to cost nearly $2.64 billion over 30 years, up from $900 million.

Groups say a year-long extension of the current surface transportation law would bolster market certainty in 2021.

Briefs from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the passenger railroad argue that private activity bonds for the Florida project were allocated correctly.

A drop in fuel consumption prompted New Jersey to raise its gas tax, above the levels of New York, whose residents took advantage of lower prices and filled up before exiting the state when driving through.

Both the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association among other groups plan to ask Congress to extend existing highway funding for a year.

Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, talks with Sarah Wynn on the hopes for a future infrastructure bill and what form it could take before and after the November elections. (19 minutes)

At a feisty board meeting, officials rolled out draconian scenarios of service cuts and fare and toll hikes should Washington help not materialize.

Trump's bare-bones campaign agenda released Aug. 23 promises to “build the world’s greatest infrastructure system.”