Infrastructure

Bills to make it harder for the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority to raise tolls are pending in the Florida Legislature, and are raising concern about bond funding for future projects.

Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed fiscal 2015 budget "takes a bipartisan jackhammer" to transportation funding, said Rep. Nick Rahall, the top Democrat on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee.

Mesa's plan to build a 1.9-mile light-rail extension using $200 million of revenue bonds does not require a public vote, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled on April 1.

A bad business model is at the heart of problems at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a report from an NYU transportation center said.

More spending will be necessary to improve the condition of New York City's bridges, according to the Independent Budget Office watchdog group.

Two separate sales tax measures that pit street repairs against mass transit projects are being floated in Los Angeles County.

The heavy political lifting to overhaul the governance structure of the Chicago region's transit system and improve its funding now begins following the release of a state transit task force recommendation that the current system be scrapped.

The Florida Department of Transportation has opened its first public-private highway project - the $1.8 billion Interstate 595 Express Lanes in Broward County.

North Texas Tollway Authority will remarket $100 million of bonds as a direct letter of pay for a 2011 issue is set to expire in July.

A state transit task force proposed scrapping the current governance structure of transit services in the Chicago region under a framework that calls for the creation of new, single super agency.