Infrastructure

A Kentucky contractor filed a discrimination suit claiming it lost work on the Ohio River Bridges Project due to state delays certifying the minority business.

Hawaii took advantage of a market starved for bonds to increase the size of its highway revenue deal and lower its borrowing costs.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board voted last week to study the feasibility of creating a light rail system on the Orange Line to connect the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys.

Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday released proposed changes in its rating methodology for 1,100 municipal utilities that it said would only result in rating changes, split between upgrades and downgrades, for less than 10% of them.

The House and Senate seem to be playing a political game of chicken with the Highway Trust Fund, sending differing bills to extend its solvency back and forth just two days before federal officials have threatened to begin cutting back on federal transportation reimbursements to states if there is an impasse

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee approved a $500 million general obligation bond measure that will go before voters on Nov. 4.

Construction of a bond-funded bridge project between Detroit and Canada that could cost as much as $4 billion advanced Wednesday when Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian officials announced appointments to a pair of new authorities that will oversee construction and financing of the span.

Maryland asks four consortiums for proposals to build and finance $2.4 billion Purple Line commuter rail project.

San Antonio and Bexar County officials have reversed course and called for a voter referendum on a $280 million streetcar project.

The Senate adopted legislation that would provide a five-month, $8 billion bailout of the Highway Trust Fund that extends the fund's solvency through mid-December.