Infrastructure

The Federal Transit Administration will distribute $266 million of competitive grants this year for transit infrastructure and environmentally friendly bus projects.

In the Flint, Mich., case, Congress seems to be making clear it will increase its criticism of state and local leaders, but avoid any fiscal or moral responsibility.

Private investors in Maryland’s multi-billion dollar Purple Line P3 rail project will finance their share of construction with a federal loan and private-activity bonds.

Mississippi state senators approve a placeholder measure that keeps a proposed gas tax increase on the table.

Chicago Transit Authority will use a $255 million federal TIFIA loan to replace more than 800 rail cars.

States can compete for $95 million of federal grants for experiments with user-based road funding mechanisms.

Municipal finance leaders and a bipartisan group of lawmakers met Wednesday on Capitol Hill to discuss how tax laws might be eased so that more public-private arrangements could be used to finance public infrastructure projects.

The U.S. Army’s cost-cutting efforts include renewable energy P3 power projects at installations across the country.

Sierra Club and other environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to stop Colorado’s $1.8 billon P3 rebuild of I-70.

As the 2016 presidential race narrows down to a handful of candidates, it appears likely that business mogul Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the nominees with the most votes at the Republican and Democratic conventions.

Alabama proposal would set its gasoline tax rate to match the average fuel levy in surrounding states.

Seven cities remain in the running for a $40 million federal grant aimed at integrating high-tech with transportation operations.

Blue ribbon panel studying Seattle area’s road funding needs says mileage fee is most sustainable revenue option.

Growth in the P3 market has been slow and fragmented so far, but it is positioned for rapid growth, Moody’s Investors Service says.

A two-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration under consideration this week by a Senate committee would provide more federal funding for runways and other infrastructure while keeping the revenue source used to back bonds financing terminal projects at its current level.

Democratic presidential candidates favor more infrastructure spending while three of four Republican contenders want to curtail federal funding.

States have three years to expend $1.9 billion of unused congressional earmarks for transportation projects.

Nebraska lawmakers and governor agree on a proposed $450 million infrastructure bank financed with gas tax revenues.

States will share $1.15 billion of federal funding for freight-related highway projects in fiscal 2016.

A labor-owned insurance company based in Washington, D.C.-based, has pledged $25 million in low-cost loans to aid the removal of lead in Flint, Mich.’s contaminated water supply, the city’s mayor said Sunday.