Infrastructure

A three-mile segment of the Coalfields Expressway will be the first public-private partnership project to be built under West Virginia's new P3 law.

The Regional Transportation Authority of Illinois heads into the new year with a $2.9 billion operating budget and $3.8 billion five-year capital program that relies on federal funds and loans, and borrowings including inaugural issues from two of its service boards.

Citing a recent debt restructuring, Moody's Investors Service upgraded the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency two notches to Ba2.

Standard & Poor's removed California's Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, operator of Caltrain service between San Jose and San Francisco, from credit watch on Monday citing improved budget operations.

Costs for Oahu's $5.26 billion rail project are on pace to exceed the budget by at least $500 million, according to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.

The New York City Regional Economic Development Council awarded $443,750 to the Trust for Public Land for design work on the QueensWay parkland project.

Volvo division Prevost opens a production line for MTA buses in sister company Nova Bus' expanded Plattsburgh, N.Y., facility, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Denver International Airport must bear most of the $53 million cost to complete a rail segment into the airport, a Denver District Court judge ruled. DIA had claimed the cost was the Regional Transportation District's responsibility.

Increasing interest in public-private transportation partnerships due to constraints from $3.6 trillion of state and local outstanding debt, Brookings Institution said.

The Los Angeles World Airports board of commissioners has approved its piece of a plan to connect Los Angeles International Airport to the city' light rail and subway system.