Infrastructure

Increased federal funding for freight-related infrastructure is a credit positive for U.S. ports, Moody's says.

A repeal of the tax exemption for municipal bonds would cost state and local governments an additional $495 billion in interest over a ten-year period, Bond Dealers of America told Congress recently.

Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will get new gates and ultimately could see an aging terminal demolished and rebuilt to serve as a central hub under initiatives formally unveiled by Mayor Rahm Emanuel Friday.

Public-private partnerships could be the answer for reviving stalled high-speed rail efforts.

Miami Beach will begin preliminary negotiations with a group led by France-based Alstom to build a modern light rail streetcar estimated to cost $400 million in its famed South Beach district.

An additional $500 billion of federal funding for public infrastructure over the next 10 years would stimulate the U.S. economy and create millions of new jobs, the Center for American Progress said in calling for a comprehensive national program.

A $2 billion flood diversion project in North Dakota and Minnesota is the first P3 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

San Diego residents will have a chance this fall to vote on a proposed hotel room tax hike that would back bonds for a $1.8 billion professional football stadium-convention center downtown, but some critics question the bond financing.

Louisiana faces another thorny funding issue: how to address billions of dollars in backlogged transportation needs.

A dispute over parking payments continues amid S&P Global Services' downgrade to junk bond status of bonds that funded a long-term parking lease.