Infrastructure

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District would like to ask voters next year to support $919 million in new borrowing for wastewater projects and to revamp its stormwater fee structure.

Two Texas senators have added to the anti-toll legislation in the 2015 legislative session, filing bills to limit the use of public-private partnerships to non-toll projects and other legislation.

Pressure from constituents may be best hope for quick congressional approval of a long-term federal transportation bill, industry advocates say.

States seeking to boost their transportation funding are finding gasoline tax increases as the most effective path to progress.

San Diego officials rolled out a reform program aimed at speeding up plans to repair 1,000 miles of city streets in five years.

An airline group asks Congress to oppose a proposal by airports for a 90% boost in a federal passenger fee that funds capital projects.

A bill that dedicates about $2.5 billion from vehicle sales taxes to non-toll highway projects is the first to win state Senate approval in the 2015 Texas Legislature.

The House passes a four-year Amtrak funding bill that requires a study of high-speed passenger rail from Washington, D.C., to Boston.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's proposed $38 billion budget projects $1.6 billion savings in Medicare expenses and establishes an MBTA weather resiliency fund.

Congress is not likely to pass a long-term transportation funding bill or tax reform legislation of any kind until 2017, after the presidential election, lobbyists said at the National Municipal Bond Summit earlier this week.