Infrastructure

The president-elect takes a much more expansively realistic view on the synergistic relationship between infrastructure investment and the middle class.

Sources see ways to get more investment in infrastructure with municipal bond provisions, but bipartisanship will be essential.

Fitch Ratings upgraded bonds supporting the Maryland light-rail transit project after the sides reached an agreement that protects bondholders.

Several factors have combined to position an innovative approach — the public-private partnership, or P3 model — as a crucial emerging tool for public entities nationwide.

The state will use a public-private partnership to replace the 68-year-old Interstate 10 bridge over the Calcasieu River between Westlake and Lake Charles.

The toll road operator parters with three international investors to sell half of its U.S. express lane assets in Northern Virginia while eyeing additional highway projects around nation's capital, including a Maryland P3.

The legal wrangling over whether the state can control expressways in Miami-Dade County is expected to rage on well into 2021.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is proposing a scaled down 2021 budget that includes additional borrowing for its capital program.

The project will construct a new 11-mile east-west freeway south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and it will be financed in a way that doesn’t infringe on state borrowing limits or expose investors to undue credit risk.

Law firm appoints Robert Labes to head its public and infrastructure finance practice group with hopes for expansion if an infrastructure bill comes to fruition.

During an industry briefing Tuesday, SIFMA's Kenneth Bentsen, Jr., said no matter who leads the SEC next, SIFMA will argue for an end to a temporary exemptive order.

MDOT will pay $250 million in the settlement, but answers to financial questions, including whether more bonding will be needed, have not been revealed.

Though President-elect Joe Biden has not provided specifics on the financing of his infrastructure agenda, sources say he will take an "all of the above" approach.

Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, who is expected to become chairman under a Republican Senate, has been receptive to increasing the limit on bank qualified debt.

Selling in a week with an expected light calendar should help the deal as will market fundamentals.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell said President-elect Biden will move on a pandemic relief bill early in his presidency and a robust infrastructure package would soon follow. Others see scaled-down aid and an upward partisan battle.

AASHTO elected only the second woman to serve as its president, and its first Black vice-president in its 106-year old history.

Infrastructure investment is likely going to be an early priority for Biden.

There is a pervasive belief that Joe Biden is likely to be more effective reaching across the aisle than Donald Trump.

After two failed efforts to bring light rail to one of Texas’ most congested cities, voters approved the Project Connect measure.