Infrastructure

The New York State Thruway Authority picked Tappan Zee Constructors to begin negotiations on a contract to construct the new $5 billion Tappan Zee bridge.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the Energy Highway Task Force's blueprint for additional electric generation and transmission capacity.

Raising the base fare on New York subways and buses to $2.50 is the most likely fare-increase scenario, said Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Connecticut officials celebrated the completion of the Arrigoni Bridge overhaul two months ahead of schedule.

The Regional Transportation Authority of Illinois qualified 10 financial advisory firms to assist the agency on future bond deals and other fiscal transactions over the next five years.

Bonds have played a role in financing spaceports.

Spaceports are popping up all over the U.S., as both existing airports and brand new facilities position themselves to profit from a new age of commercial space travel and transport, but the industry is still in its infancy.

Voters in unincorporated Ascension Parish, La., will vote on a 0.5% sales tax that would support $80 million of revenue bonds for road improvements.

The Louisiana will sell $350 million of state road bonds at one time rather than spreading the deal into three tranches, on the advice of Treasurer John Kennedy.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's new chief executive, Keith T. Parker, signed a five-year contract with a base salary of $320,000 a year.