Infrastructure

The Nevada Board of Finance on Tuesday approved a $100 million bond to help fund a $1 billion highway widening project on a nearly two-mile stretch of Interstate-15 that provides access to major Las Vegas resorts.

House and Senate appropriators unveiled a $1.012 trillion bipartisan omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014 late Monday that would provide funds for transportation and many other programs but not high speed rail.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday said he expects to have a new funding law for highways, ports, bridges and transit in place before the current one expires on Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2014.

The Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court, dismissed Nassau County's legal challenge to the MTA's payroll mobility tax by refusing to hear the case.

California Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, has filed paperwork for a ballot measure that would prohibit the sale of voter-approved bonds for the state's high speed rail project.

More state transportation P3 projects are on the horizon for 2014 due to declines in state and federal funding streams, Fitch said in a report

Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler said he won't approve the issuance of over $1.5 billion bonds for the Columbia River Crossing project until there is more certainty on toll collections.

The Phoenix area will see its light rail system grow with this week's $115 million of sales tax-backed bonds.

The triple-A Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council is readying $194 million of general obligation notes and bonds for competitive sale Tuesday.

Eleven U.S. cities are among the first in the 33 of 100 in the world picked by the Rockefeller Foundation to receive financial assistance in developing more-resilient infrastructure to resist catastrophic events.