Infrastructure

Infrastructure financing and tax reform will be major issues for presidential and other candidates in November, said municipal market participants.

Developers of a proposed $12 billion Houston-Dallas bullet train want federal regulators to affirm their oversight of project.

Poll finds scant support from Kansas City (Mo.) voters for bonds that would finance a new $964 million airport terminal.

A year after North Carolina inked its first public-private partnership with I-77 Mobility Partners, lawmakers have filed bills to terminate the $648 million pact amid investigations into the deal.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullocks wants lawmakers to focus on infrastructure in 2017 session.

Preliminary plans to relocate the National Football League’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas call for the creation of a Clark County Stadium Authority that would issue up to $750 million of bonds to help finance a new $1.4 billion stadium under a public-private partnership agreement.

A $357 million federal TIFIA loan to a Texas P3 project will help finance construction of tolled express lanes on a Houston highway.

Most Americans surveyed in a new poll would support replacing the gasoline tax with road user fees.

In a near unanimous vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a bill that includes $1.4 billion in federal funding for Flint, Mich. as well as any other community facing a water crisis.

The Federal Transit Administration will award $22.5 million of clean technology grants to seven transit agencies.

After having been withdrawn from the energy bill in the Senate, controversial legislation to provide federal funds to Flint, Mich., and any other community facing a water crisis, has been included in a major water bill introduced in the chamber this week.

Federal grants would be available to repair or replace dangerous dams under bipartisan Senate proposal.

The Baltimore Board of Finance has approved $535 million of TIF bonds for a $5.5 billion waterfront development project.

Congested urban highways in the U.S. add unnecessary costs to truckers as drivers spend long hours in traffic bottlenecks.

Florida bond director Ben Watkins does not believe public-private partnerships that include private financing benefit the public sector, but P3 proponents disagree.

Missouri Senate passes a bill setting up a statewide gasoline tax referendum in November.

The fiscal 2017 federal transportation budget approved by Senate Appropriations Committee incorporates FAST Act funding.

A bill introduced by Senate Democrats would increase funding for state revolving funds, permanently reauthorize a program to provide low-cost loans for water projects, and remove the cap on private-activity bonds for water and wastewater projects.

U.S. airports, ports, and toll roads should experience healthy growth in 2016 thanks to a recovering economy and low fuel prices.

New transportation program dedicates portion of revenue from Nebraska’s gasoline tax to state road infrastructure bank.