Infrastructure

The proposed $12.7 billion project to build a new rail tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey has become a flashpoint between Democratic lawmakers and the Trump administration.

A watchdog organization says New York City would fare better with a rainy day fund instead of its current reserve mechanisms.

Lower gas prices, remote working, easy driving and new competition from ride-share companies are taking slices of the pie.

The layout of Los Angeles means the concept wouldn't work as proposed in Manhattan, Eric Garcetti said in New York.

Shawnee County, Kansas, commissioners on Monday morning approved by a 3-0 vote a resolution to issue about $13 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for a shopping development in west Topeka.

Jerry Zaro, chairman of Gateway Development Corp., discusses the importance of replacing a 108-year old rail tunnel linking New Jersey with Manhattan and how lack of support from the Trump administration has prevented the $12.7 billion project from getting off the ground. Andrew Coen hosts.

Chairman Patrick Foye and board members want answers to repeated snafus over the installation of train safety technology.

Eric Garcetti unveiled his fiscal 2020 budget proposal for Los Angeles.

Reaching beyond numbers, Health + Hospitals President Mitchell Katz is striving to overhaul a long-problematic $8 billion city unit.

The New York and New Jersey bi-state agency in announced that electronic tolls will roll out on two more bridges this year.

The Port Authority needs inland distribution facilities located on rail lines to handle its growing volume.

Kathy Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, analyzes the impact of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2020-2024 capital investment strategy. Paul Burton hosts.

While JPMorgan Chase will see a public-private prison in Kansas through to completion, private financing as an alternative to municipal bonds is on the way out.

California water bonds highlight the light holiday-week calendar.

Bankers, lobbyists, issuers and lawyers aren't necessarily optimistic on an infrastructure bill passing this year.

Staring at a third gas tax hike in four years, New Jersey is exploring enacting an alternative revenue source for the state’s Transportation Trust Fund.

Among the beneficiaries is a bond-financed bus line in Portland, Oregon.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated when the California Transportation Commission voted, despite a host of warnings, to pay a contractor more than $1 billion to build two tunnels and a stretch of road outside San Francisco nine years ago.

Advocates are pressing for more than a pork-filled package, with reforms and sustainable funding sources, too.

Seth Magaziner's strategies mingle school construction borrowing and debt-management sessions with victims compensation, college savings and a small-business program.