Infrastructure

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announces new transportation technology advisor fellowship.

The authors of a new paper from The Hamilton Project at Brookings propose four short-term and three long-term ways to address the need for infrastructure investment in the United States, including a revival of the Build America Bond program.

Senate Democrats slam Republican leadership over lack of ideas for long-term highway fix.

Attorneys for All Aboard Florida told a federal judge that the private passenger train owners could close on $1.75 billion in tax exempt private activity bonds around June 8.

The Obama administration's proposal to create a new class of tax-exempt debt that is permitted within the context and requirements of public private partnership is a hopeful sign of a way forward in creating a new hybrid infrastructure financing model.

Finance chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch is looking for the $11 billion needed to keep the HTF solvent through 2015.

A New York City Council panel approved zoning changes necessary to advance a 67-story office tower development with enhanced access to Grand Central.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday he would meet immediately with lawmakers to seek a legislative solution to raise new road money after voters Tuesday soundly rejected a tax referendum.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tapped public transit veteran Dorval R. Carter Jr. to take the helm of the Chicago Transit Authority.

Lack of action on a long-term transportation funding bill “is a joke,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.