Infrastructure

The Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New Jersey to Manhattan received a commitment for $70 million in an effort to fast-track the estimated $20 billion initiative.

Chicago Transit Authority will use a $255 million federal TIFIA loan to replace more than 800 rail cars.

States can compete for $95 million of federal grants for experiments with user-based road funding mechanisms.

Municipal finance leaders and a bipartisan group of lawmakers met Wednesday on Capitol Hill to discuss how tax laws might be eased so that more public-private arrangements could be used to finance public infrastructure projects.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law $1 billion in new road and bridge funding for the next two years.

New York’s MTA expects to know the fate of its five-year capital program by the end of the month, said Chairman Thomas Prendergast.

The U.S. Army’s cost-cutting efforts include renewable energy P3 power projects at installations across the country.

Sierra Club and other environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to stop Colorado’s $1.8 billon P3 rebuild of I-70.

Atlantic City is putting its former airport property up for auction in an effort to address its massive debt burden eight years after a gamble with the land backfired.

As the 2016 presidential race narrows down to a handful of candidates, it appears likely that business mogul Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the nominees with the most votes at the Republican and Democratic conventions.