Infrastructure

Ohio’s $7.8 billion budget is awaiting action by Gov. John Kasich after legislative passage last week.

Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan will be structured to attract private investors, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said.

Texas highway commissioners have added 230 projects costing $9 billion to the state’s 10-year road plan.

All Aboard Florida is assuring supporters of the private passenger train project that it will move forward despite the sales of its owner and an affiliate and pending legislation that the company says could jeopardize expansion plans.

Maryland’s congressional delegation wants President Trump’s help in reviving a stalled FBI headquarters swap.

How might infrastructure initiatives from President Trump affect state and municipal issuers, and the capital markets? John Hallacy and Paul Burton discuss.

Bill raising Tennessee gas tax paves way for Nashville vote on sales tax for transit.

St. Louis is seeking federal approval to explore a privatization of St. Louis Lambert International Airport as a means to generate private investment in the air field and funds for city use.

Airport executives tell Senate panel that raising the passenger facility charge would help fund needed improvements.

President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget would cause a major setback to plans for a long-stalled Gateway rail project connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, lawmakers and transportation advocates warned.

Bonds supported by higher gas tax could spark $500 billion increase in federal transportation funding.

Congressional trio seeks revenue for infrastructure funding from tax reform as Moody’s warns of slow spending increase.

JP Morgan’s 7th annual public finance transportation and utility conference in New York featured presentations from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which are taking differing approaches to financing their needs.

Arkansas House defeats plan to raise taxes by $200 million per year to support road bonds.

A potential budget wall between TxDOT and a proposed bullet train could halt the $12 billion project.

Trump’s 2018 budget plan threatens funding for transit projects such as Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line rail P3.

One of the only intermodal freight facilities to take advantage of a special 12-year-old federal private activity bond program is readying its fourth round of financing.

President Trump's 2018 budget outline would dramatically cut spending for federal transportation and community development programs.

Legislative battles break out in South Carolina and Tennessee over proposed state gasoline tax hikes.

Private investment plan revives long-stalled Oklahoma highway project to complete a road loop around Tulsa.