Infrastructure

A $1.8 billion plan to eliminate an Interstate 70 viaduct built in the 1960s wins Denver City Council support.

Capital projects scheduled by infrastructure-related issuers like transportation and utility entities will keep the sector busy despite expected low issuance this year, investors and issuers said at a JP Morgan conference.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear vetoed enabling legislation for statewide use of public-private partnerships late Friday saying it was wrong to enshrine in law a toll ban on a long-planned $3.5 billion bridge project.

The Missouri House approved placing on the November ballot a 1 cent sales tax increase to fund transportation projects.

After seven years where Puerto Rico's economy generally declined, several economists say there are signs that it is stabilizing.

Leaders on the Senate Environment and Public Works committee said they reached an agreement on principles for a surface transportation reauthorization bill and suggested funding could be raised through tax reform.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which operates Greater Boston's mass transit system, intends to sell $200 million of senior sales tax bonds.

In Memphis, Tenn., and Atlanta, major airport-centered economic development plans anticipate using innovative and traditional financing.

Federal lawmakers are examining the Canadian public-private partnership model for lessons to apply in the U.S., where a major infrastructure bank bill awaits action in both chambers of Congress.

The Texas Department of Transportation is facing a federal criminal investigation of its land deals for expansion of Interstate 35E, according to reports.