Infrastructure

Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, and MTA board member Andrew Albert say supporting mass transit is the best way to rejuvenate the economy in New York and nationally. Paul Burton hosts. (27 minutes)

Feeling the revenue hit from the coronavirus, the commission has received state approval for a second delay in $112.5 million quarterly transit payments.

Billions of public funds have been spent cleaning up the bay, but two lawsuits say those efforts are endangered because the EPA failed to do its job.

Declines are attributed to the pandemic and were highest among first-year students, report says.

Former Rep. Joe Crowley, D- NY., said fellow Democrats need to get on board with using public-private partnerships as a way to pay for infrastructure.

The city's full-court press on investors includes a webinar to replace pre-COVID-19 investor luncheons and one-on-one calls ahead of the $1.24 billion deal.

The $73 million in present value savings over the next three years will help offset the costs of the coronavirus pandemic.

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.