Infrastructure

A 15-cent increase in Kansas fuel taxes would support $264 million per year in highway projects, boosting economic activity by nearly $600 million, according to a road-building industry report.

A courtroom hearing next month will determine whether California can issue a portion of nearly $10 billion of voter-approved bonds for its high-speed rail program.

President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget would cause a major setback to plans for a long-stalled Gateway rail project connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, lawmakers and transportation advocates warned.

Bonds supported by higher gas tax could spark $500 billion increase in federal transportation funding.

San Jose, Calif. is prepared to issue $640.7 million of airport revenue refunding bonds in a deal city officials expect to generate savings “well in excess” of their policy goals.

Minnesota’s Republican leaders laid out their cards on transportation spending this week, but they remain in conflict with Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal.

Congressional trio seeks revenue for infrastructure funding from tax reform as Moody’s warns of slow spending increase.

JP Morgan’s 7th annual public finance transportation and utility conference in New York featured presentations from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which are taking differing approaches to financing their needs.

Complications are threatening to even further delay the planned reopening of the No. 1 line Cortlandt Street station in New York, destroyed on Sept. 11.

Arkansas House defeats plan to raise taxes by $200 million per year to support road bonds.