Infrastructure

The design for a new Walk Railroad Bridge in Norwalk remains on schedule, said Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and state transportation Commissioner James Redeker.

Dozens of municipal market groups made the case for preserving tax-exempt bond financing and/or easing certain bond restrictions in documents submitted to the Senate Finance Committee’s tax-reform working groups.

Oregon selects the vendors that will collect the vehicle data needed for the nation’s first pay-per-mile road usage program.

House Appropriations subcommittee adopted a fiscal 2016 transportation budget with no increase in highway and transit spending.

The Panama Canal expansion will benefit East Coast local governments near key ports, but West Coast ports will not lose business from the expansion, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report.

A second federal lawsuit has been filed challenging the private activity bond financing for the All Aboard Florida train project; the latest suit comes from Martin County, Fla.

Rep. Rep. Bill Pascrell, who keeps a Lucite encased drinking water pipe in his office as a reminder of the "very serious and urgent" need, has continued to press for his Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act.

New York’s MTA board approved a ban on political advertising after some contentious debate and an adverse ruling in federal court.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy continued his push for a 30-year, $100 billion transportation infrastructure spending package.

Millions of jobs and billions of dollars in state road and transit projects are at risk unless a multiyear federal transportation bill is in place by the end of May, Senate Finance Committee Democrats warned on Tuesday.