Infrastructure

Voters in Louisiana Saturday select a new governor and decide on a constitutional amendment to fund new transportation projects that opponents say could hurt the state’s credit ratings.

Americans agree on the need for higher highway funding in a new nationwide poll but there’s no accord on how to pay for it.

States will be hard-pressed to maintain their credit quality if they attempt to fund infrastructure needs solely through traditional tax-exempt debt financing, Standard & Poor’s said in a new report.

House Democrats want more federal highway and transit funding than provided in Rep. Shuster’s six-year, $325 billion bill.

A California legislative committee tasked with fixing the state’s transportation funding woes kicked off its work, vowing not to let the difficulty of the choices facing them prevent a solution from emerging.

House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee is on schedule to vote Oct. 22 on a six-year highway funding bill.

Economic study says privately financed Texas bullet train could generate billions of tax dollars for state and local governments.

While the intricate funding details for New York MTA’s five-year capital program are new, the backdrop had a familiar ring.

Officials at major U.S. ports, speaking at an infrastructure summit, said they are receptive to exploring private-public partnerships as a funding source to meet infrastructure needs.

Investors squeezed a more modest penalty out of Chicago on a recent $419 million wastewater revenue bond deal than they have demanded on its general obligation paper, market participants said.