Infrastructure

An overhaul of LaGuardia Airport is closer to taking flight after the Port Authority of New York and Jersey Board of Commissioners voted to approve a public-private partnership for the $4 billion project.

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.