Infrastructure

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.

Since 2010, over 64,000 new beds on more than 100 different campuses across the country have been financed, built and are being maintained by the private sector.

Water contamination-related lawsuits filed in Chicago and Flint, Mich. stand to influence the sector nationally as the cases draw more scrutiny to the dangers associated with older lead pipe-based systems, Fitch Rating says in a new report.

Washington’s historic Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac will be closed in 2021 without $250 million of repairs.

An investment banker hired as an expert witness in lawsuits challenging All Aboard Florida’s passenger train service said tax-exempt financing is critical to funding the $3.5 billion project, although the private company says that’s not true.

A Senate bill would remove the state capacity limits for tax-exempt private activity bonds to fund P3 water utility infrastructure projects.

Group says National Parks Service could whittle down much of its $12 billion maintenance backlog with public-private partnerships.

Maryland has selected its preferred private partner for the multi-billion dollar Purple Line light rail project, Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday.

A bipartisan bill that would provide $220 million of federal funds to Flint, Mich., as well as any other community facing a drinking water emergency, appears to be is stalled in the Senate.

Federal officials expect to have construction agreement with private partner for a new FBI headquarters by end of 2016.

Reps. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill., and Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., have launched a Municipal Finance Caucus made up of House members from both political parties who will fight to protect the tax-exempt status of municipal debt and ensure there is a robust market for municipal securities.