Infrastructure

Lubbock's City Council voted Monday to finance a $60 million public safety improvements project starting as soon as this fiscal year.

Phillips County will get a new jail and law enforcement facility.

Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie say the ball is in Trump's court on the crucial Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project, as local commitments are secured.

Urban planners argue for the unlocking of public assets through an asset trust, an idea largely untested in the U.S.

President Trump’s call for $1 trillion in federal public infrastructure investment appears to have foundered, even as the national debt has accelerated, posing increased threats to the cost of state and local financing of public infrastructure.

Variables range from the effect of the federal tax bill on advance bond refundings to external support for a subway improvement plan.

Transportation officials want tax reform to include funding for the Highway Trust Fund and infrastructure as part of the larger package.

First on the list is an infrastructure plan we can embrace fully – with clearly identified and unencumbered revenue streams from the Federal level.

Over two months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island’s government still hasn’t received any of the $4.9 billion of short-term loans promised in the storm aid package Congress passed at the end of October.

President Donald Trump plans to keep pushing his legislative agenda in 2018 by releasing his long-promised infrastructure proposal in early January, a senior administration official said.

With a $2.4 billion modernization of Newark Liberty International Airport already taking flight, an urban planning group wants the airport to spread its wings further with a large-scale infrastructure project.

Only weeks after Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a fiscal 2018 budget, the state has a new round of fiscal crises.

Regional Plan Association's far-reaching ideas for New York-area transit overhaul struck some nerves, and president Tom Wright welcomes the debate.

Lawmakers Monday authorized issuing the voter-approved debt, including the first sale of $800 million soon.

Economic development leaders on Wednesday cleared a major final hurdle for the development of Glacier Rail Park when the Flathead County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution for port authority revenue bonds needed to finance the relocation of CHS to the rail park.

Long perceived as clunky and stagnant, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is recrafting itself under control board oversight.

With rates trending higher, the county still hopes an advance refunding will save water and sewer ratepayers $68 million.

In its third and final meeting of the year, the State Bond Commission on Wednesday approved capital projects totaling about $1.2 billion, including $500 million for school construction projects throughout Connecticut.

The state’s Bond Commission on Wednesday approved $4.01 million in funding the Connecticut Port Authority had requested for harbor improvements.

The Regional Plan Association recommends congestion pricing, infrastructure banks, public benefit corporations, a regional rail system and an end to 24-hour New York subway service.