Infrastructure

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.

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.