Infrastructure

The District of Columbia submitted its enacted $13.4 billion fiscal 2017 budget and 2017-2020 capital plan to Congress and President Obama Wednesday, defying Republican legislation that would curtail any such action without congressional approval.

In a first-of-its-kind case, a federal judge hears arguments June 30 on motions to dismiss a challenge by two Florida counties of $1.75 billion in private activity bonds for the All Aboard Florida passenger train.

Sponsors of a $1 billion rail line in north Texas said more than $535 million of federal funding is on the way.

Much of the funding in Massachusetts’ new five-year, $14.8 billion capital plan goes to transit infrastructure upgrades.

San Diego’s Regional Transportation Agency faces opposition from environmental groups to a tax measure for November’s ballot that would raise $18 billion for the region’s transportation project

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Finance Committee on Monday gave its approval to send a bond offering to the MTA board for a final vote on Wednesday.

Unlike its neighbors, Arkansas does not tap its general revenues for transportation projects.

Maryland’s Purple Line rail P3 gets official notification of an $875 million low-interest federal loan.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a fiscal 2017 appropriations bill that would maintain current funding levels for both the Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission as well as increase federal funding for the District of Columbia.

North Carolina Transportation Secretary Nick Tennyson said the $800 million cost to unwind the I-77 Mobility contract and finance the projects in-house are among his concerns about House Bill 954, which would terminate the P3.