Infrastructure

Florida lawmakers unanimously passed Senate Bill 230 to create a new regional toll road agency, and abolish the embattled Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, which has $2.6 billion of debt.

Approval of a $1.9 billion federal transportation loan for the $5.7 billion Silver Line rail extension to Washington's Dulles Airport is the largest ever awarded.

Patrick A. Nowakowski, the executive director of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, will be the next president of Long Island Rail Road, the MTA announced.

The Missouri Senate has approved a measure sending to voters a sale tax hike to fund transportation projects.

Tolling and transit advocates praise the $302 billion transportation legislation now in Congress, but others doubt lawmakers will act before the November elections.

Florida lawmakers are in a last-minute push to replace the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority on the heels of a scandal that dogs the agency.

Houston plans to demolish Terminal D at Bush Intercontinental Airport and build a replacement at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominated John J. Degnan to be the new chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday.

President Obama sent to Congress a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation funding bill that ends the prohibition on tolling existing interstate highways.

A new credit issued by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority secured by payroll mobility tax revenues should be its highest rated, according to finance director Patrick McCoy.