Infrastructure

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s $1.37 billion of Series 2009F Build America Bonds in a routine examination.

New Jersey Gov. Chris ­Christie Wednesday ended an $8.7 billion mass-transit tunnel project and rejected U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood’s financing suggestions that would have addressed potential cost overruns on the nation’s largest public transportation project.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved bridge and tunnel toll hikes that will yield an additional 7.5% of revenue at its monthly board meeting Wednesday.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Like other cities ­dealing with congestion, Atlanta has been searching for ways to move people around downtown without building new roads or ­adding more vehicles.

DALLAS — A transportation coalition is seeking legislative sponsors for Louisiana state constitutional amendments that would raise the gasoline tax and establish a $3 billion bond program for highway efforts.

Voters will be asked Tuesday to give the Georgia Department of Transportation the flexibility to enter into multi-year construction agreements.

WASHINGTON — California and Florida are the biggest winners of high-speed rail grants, securing $1.7 billion out of a total of $2.5 billion to help close ­funding gaps for ambitious rail projects that have already received large federal grants.

Pittsburgh’s City Council Tuesday approved a $220 million Pittsburgh Parking Authority bond deal that aims to prevent a state takeover of the city’s pension system.

SAN FRANCISCO — The syndicate picked to design, build, finance, operate and maintain California’s first public-private partnership, the Presidio Parkway project, plans to partly fund the link to the Golden Gate Bridge with $150 million of private-activity bonds.

DALLAS — Fitch Ratings downgraded Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to A-plus from AA-minus as it prepares to issue $301 million for its $2.7 billion terminal renovation program.