Infrastructure

Baltimore city and county will provide $280 million for Maryland's $2.9 billion Red Line light rail project to help attract $900 million of federal funding.

The consortium building the $2.3 billion Interstate 4 project in central Florida says bank and federal loans are cheaper than bonds for the state's largest public-private partnership project.

The Port of Los Angeles, an infrequent issuer, plans to price a $339 million combined new money-refunding with AMT and non-AMT the week of Sept. 1.

The Port of Portland is planning to sell nearly $100 million of revenue bonds next week for the Portland International Airport.

States are losing more than $1 billion a year by giving breaks on jet fuel taxes to airlines, the Unite Here International Union said in a new report.

The Louisiana Transportation Funding Task Force holds its first meeting Sept. 10 to begin studying new ways of funding road and bridge projects.

Nevada made a splash earlier this year with plans for its biggest P3 yet. Now the state has reversed course after finding it would be less expensive to manage and fund the project itself.

Oregon, which invented the gasoline tax in 1919, is on the road to be the first state to shift to a mileage-based user fee for highway funding.

Kentucky's auditor wants legislators to restructure the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport board after uncovering questionable expenses, policies.

A long-awaited report that recommends West Virginia issue $1.5 billion in bonds to fund transportation projects will be released in September.