Infrastructure

Long-range road funding bill approved by Indiana House calls for highway planners to study the feasibility of tolling Interstate Highways.

The Port of Oakland has lost its second-largest terminal operator, a blow that Fitch Ratings said should be manageable.

Pennsylvania road revenues will over the next 12 years will be $6 billion shy of the $34 billion needed for its long-range plan.

Relieving the congestion on urban highways in Texas will be a continual process that requires additional funding sources, planners say.

Voters in Portland, Ore., will decide May 17 on the city's proposed four-year, 10 cent per gallon gasoline tax.

Texas will spend $1.3 billion on 14 highway projects aimed at reducing traffic congestion in five cities.

Missouri’s transportation chief warned lawmakers that state lacks funds to rebuild aging roads and bridges.

The Highway Trust Fund will remain solvent through 2020 with a $70 billion general fund transfer but the revenue shortfall won’t go away, CBO said.

California cuts road and transit project funding by $754 million over five years as fuel sales tax revenues fall in step with pump prices.

Virginia planners determine that express toll lanes on Interstate 66 is best way to cut travel times.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley asked lawmakers to raise the state's gasoline tax and cut the income tax rate.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants to raise state transportation funding by $750 million over 10 years without raising taxes.

Aging and underfunded infrastructure is the greatest challenge for mayors, according to a survey sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and The Boston University Initiative and supported by Citi.

States can begin expending their share of the $39.7 billion of federal transportation funding provided in fiscal 2016 by the new FAST Act.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will not propose an increase in the state’s gasoline and diesel taxes during the 2016 legislative session.

Indiana lawmakers are considering three competing proposals to provide additional funding for state transportation projects.

Capital needs are rising in the public transportation sector as aging infrastructure must be repaired or replaced, S&P says.

Gov. Gina Raimondo’s plan to impose highway tolls on trucks in Rhode Island is based on faulty revenue projections, said a trucking industry-commissioned study.

Missouri will go ahead with planned road work with unexpected jump in gas tax revenues and a five-year extension of federal highway funding.

Omnibus federal budget law revives more than $2 billion of unexpended state road earmarks for new use.