Infrastructure

Veronique ‘Ronnie’ Hakim returns as MTA New York City Transit president after 18 months as NJ Transit executive director.

Pat Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is planning to step down, the agency announced Thursday.

A $282 million federal transportation loan will finance additional lanes on an eight-mile stretch of U.S. 183 in Austin, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced.

New York’s transit workers union chief and the CEO of a paratransit vendor plan to meet again in the hopes of averting a strike over working conditions.

Legislative gridlock in Congress over long-term transportation funding is causing problems for the states.

The Chicago City Council adopted new rules governing any future asset privatization deals against a backdrop of lingering political and public anger over the city’s parking meter lease fiasco.

Higher interest rates could challenge New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the next few years, said its chief financial officer.

Los Angeles Airport expects to be the busiest U.S. airport during Thanksgiving holiday for third year in a row.

The Senate will consider a House-approved transportation appropriations bill that keeps fiscal 2016 highway funding at fiscal 2015 levels.

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is highlighting to investors its double-A ratings and fiscal strength as it prices a $400 million deal against a backdrop of two recent downgrades to Illinois state general obligation bonds.