Infrastructure

A member of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives is asking the commonwealth's comptroller’s office to review a $2.4 million contract between the Puerto Rico Public Private Partnerships Authority and law firm Mayer Brown LLP, saying a conflict of interest exists regarding the proposed privatization of Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has appointed four people to the nascent Connecticut Airport Authority and named Mary Ellen Jones of Glastonbury as the board’s chairwoman.

LOS ANGELES - A confirmation hearing on the Las Vegas Monorail's plans to exit bankruptcy that had been slated this week was postponed after bondholders, the insurer, and the issuer all balked.

Federal investigators are auditing a billion dollar expansion project at the Port of Anchorage amid huge cost overruns, published reports say.

WASHINGTON - Transportation industry and government groups have not found a lot to like in President Obama's American Jobs Act, and they are particularly unhappy about the proposed infrastructure bank.

Fairfield, Conn., is targeting an Oct. 31 opening for its third Metro-North Railroad train station after the town passed a $7.5 million bond authorization to cover the costs of the long-delayed Fairfield Metro project marked by cost overruns.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal last week signed an executive order creating the Transit Governance Task Force.

BRADENTON, Fla. - The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority said in a notice that Florida has refused to pay its monthly bill under a lease-purchase agreement for facilities built with toll-backed debt.

DALLAS - The Arizona Transportation Board has switched lanes to adjust to market conditions, planning to substitute a senior-lien excise tax revenue bond issue for a subordinate-lien highway revenue bond sale that had been expected this week.

Highway and airport construction projects should escape shutdowns now that House and Senate leaders have agreed to extend airport construction funding through January and highway funding through March.