Infrastructure

Maryland gets $27.9 million grant to study a 40-mile magnetic levitation train route expected to cost $10 billion.

Michigan’s recent adoption of a $1.2 billion road funding package was labeled a positive credit factor for the state’s transportation revenue bonds by Moody’s Investors Service.

Missouri has turned east to New Hampshire for a new head of transportation.

On the eve of pricing $1.75 billion of bonds for a privately owned intercity passenger train system, its Florida developers introduced Brightline as the name of the new service.

Tennessee’s cash-funded transportation system fails to keep pace with billions in backlogged needs, and residents must decide how to tackle the problem, Gov. Bill Haslam said Monday.

Oklahoma system will finance almost $900 million of turnpike projects with toll revenue bonds rather than state tax revenues.

Massachusetts has completed a $500 million sale of Commonwealth Transportation Fund revenue bonds to help fund six new rail projects in the Bay State.

Voters in eight states approved 26 of 37 transportation funding proposals on Nov. 3 ballots.

The House adopted a six-year, $325 billion transportation funding measure that must be reconciled by Nov. 20 with Senate's $342 billion plan.

A capital project to provide East Side access in New York to Long Island Rail Road trains is nearly 60% complete, said MTA official Michael Horodniceanu.