Infrastructure

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.

Significant cost overruns on an earlier light-rail program may affect November vote on Seattle’s $54 billion transit proposal.

More infrastructure spending at all levels of government would be best fix for California's congested, deficient roads, TRIP says.

Advocates say Colorado could unclog roads with an additional $1 billion each year for transit, sidewalks, and bike lanes.

The transportation and utilities sectors grew by $7.9 billion in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier.

Two California state lawmakers released a proposal they say would generate $7.4 billion annually for transportation, with $2.5 billion going directly to cities and counties.

Cash-strapped Louisiana faces huge expenses as a result of the three days of torrential rains that flooded the southern part of the state, state budget chief Jay Dardenne told a legislative panel Thursday.

State gasoline tax collections climb as more Americans hit the road, giving states additional borrowing capacity.