Infrastructure

Americans agree on the need for higher highway funding in a new nationwide poll but there’s no accord on how to pay for it.

States will be hard-pressed to maintain their credit quality if they attempt to fund infrastructure needs solely through traditional tax-exempt debt financing, Standard & Poor’s said in a new report.

House Democrats want more federal highway and transit funding than provided in Rep. Shuster’s six-year, $325 billion bill.

House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee is on schedule to vote Oct. 22 on a six-year highway funding bill.

Economic study says privately financed Texas bullet train could generate billions of tax dollars for state and local governments.

House Transportation Committee next week will consider a multiyear highway funding bill that lacks revenue provisions.

A new poll by AAA finds 45% of Americans blame Congress for an inadequate level of transportation funding.

Virginia will consider the qualifications of six potential partners before making decision on $2.1 billion upgrade of I-66.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned Thursday that Congress and the Executive Branch should not hurt two federal loan programs for infrastructure: the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and the Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing programs.

House consideration of Senate’s six-year transportation bill could avoid a nationwide rail shutdown, said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam wants local officials to join his call for more state funding for transportation infrastructure.

Most Arkansas polled in a recent survey do not favor a gasoline tax increase to cover a road revenue shortfall.

Congressional negotiators fail to find agreement on use of international tax reform to support multiyear transportation funding.

Congressional negotiations over new revenues to support a multiyear highway bill could falter over push for higher annual transportation funding.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., asks the House to move quickly on multiyear transportation bill to avoid disruptions this fall.

Infrastructure needs, pension funding and health-care benefits are most constraining to municipal budgets in 2015, the National League of Cities said in its annual survey on fiscal conditions.

House Majority Leader and top candidate to replace Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio as House Speaker, says he’s confident Congress will pass a multiyear highway bill in October.

The Texas Transportation Commission decided tolls are not needed to fund a proposed $530 million highway project.

With non-transportation P3s on the rise, analysts and other experts say they're not for everyone.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells road planners to look at projects that eliminate bottlenecks and reduce traffic congestion.