Infrastructure

New York's MTA seeks up to $300 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements for the L subway line to account for a spike in ridership.

The federal government has given Illinois and Indiana the go ahead to advance plans for a more than $1 billion bistate toll road both states hope to build with financing from a public-private partnership.

The House late Thursday passed a spending bill known as the "cromnibus" that would fund most federal government agencies through the end of the federal fiscal year.

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla announced that he will sign a bill to increase oil taxes to support the commonwealth's Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico and the Highway and Transportation Authority.

Squeezed for funds to finance transportation projects, Missouri is eyeing tolls to improve and expand Interstate 70.

Falling crude prices may make an increase in the federal gasoline tax more politically palatable.

MTA officials heard Staten Island officials and residents tell them that they and other outer boroughs are shortchanged.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey adopted a 2015 budget Wednesday that keeps operating expenses flat while also addressing capital needs.

Members of Congress unveiled a fiscal 2015 spending bill late Tuesday, but some provisions tucked into the measure were drawing opposition.

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla has not yet decided whether he will sign oil tax rise legislation approved by the legislature that would support the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority.