Infrastructure

The market stars aligned for Berkeley, Calif., to land what participants call exceptional pricing for a parking revenue bond deal.

The National Development Council closed its $32 million parking system transaction with Scranton, Pa.

States will experiment with alternatives to the gasoline tax using funding from first round of federal grants.

Japan will contribute $2 million to study a $10 billion magnetic levitation rail line between Baltimore and Washington.

Federal aid will alleviate financial challenges for southern Louisiana parishes affected by this month’s flooding, but the disaster remains a credit negative for the state and local governments, Moody's Investors Service said/

Congressional critic of California's $9 billion of state bonds for high-speed rail wants to repurpose the funding.

Amtrak countersued the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority over $30 million for track maintenance between Boston and Rhode Island.

After approving a plan to finance $70 billion of projects over the next decade, the Texas Transportation Commission will issue $712 million of bonds in September to take care of current needs.

Almost all the state legislators who voted for a higher state gasoline tax last year won their 2016 primary races, according to an analysis of eight states that enacted laws to increase their state motor fuel taxes in 2015.

Maryland and Federal Transit Administration officials want a federal judge to restore funding for the $5.6 billion Purple Line light rail public-private partnership project that was shut down by court order in early August.