Infrastructure

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced $100 million in renovations to Boston's Logan Airport, to be funded through Massport's capital plan.

Annual spending on roads and bridges is up to $50 billion short of what is needed to maintain and improve them, U.S. DOT said in report on transportation infrastructure

Indiana tapped a shortlist of four private teams to compete to work on the state's largest public-private partnership, a 47-mile toll highway linking the state to Illinois.

A central Florida grand jury is investigating potential hiring improprieties by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley plans to sign a bill authorizing the use of state gasoline taxes as a backup pledge to bolster future issuances of Garvee bonds.

Proposals to pump up the sagging Highway Trust Fund without raising the federal gasoline tax offer a solution to the highway funding impasse.

Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of key House transportation committee, wants to study two new plans to bolster the sagging Highway Trust Fund

MBTA Retirement Fund officials defended the secretive practices of the $1.6 billion fund, which manages the retirement accounts of Boston-area transit employees.

President Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion surface transportation infrastructure construction and repair program.

New York's MTA, rejecting a plea from former chairman Richard Ravitch not to do so, approved $7 million to cover Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll discounts.