Infrastructure

A report critical of Gov. Gina Raimondo's plan to toll trucks on Rhode Island's interstate highways stems from a trucking industry agenda, says a Raimondo spokeswoman.

Gov. Gina Raimondo’s plan to impose highway tolls on trucks in Rhode Island is based on faulty revenue projections, said a trucking industry-commissioned study.

Missouri will go ahead with planned road work with unexpected jump in gas tax revenues and a five-year extension of federal highway funding.

Charles W. Hoppe, president of Long Island Rail Road from 1990 to 1994, died at age 80, officials from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced.

Omnibus federal budget law revives more than $2 billion of unexpended state road earmarks for new use.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is slated to sell $149 million of revenue bonds later this week to refund old debt.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a tech modernization program for the MTA, including expanded Wi-Fi hotspots, accelerating mobile payments and ticketing to replace the MetroCard.

Plans for a $1 billion electric car factory in North Las Vegas are a credit positive for Clark County and Nevada, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Nebraska would accelerate work on an unfinished expressway with funding from a proposed transportation infrastructure bank.

The U.S. Department of Transportation gave All Aboard Florida another year to issue $1.75 billion of private activity bonds for its $3.5 billion passenger train project.