Infrastructure

The Senate will consider a House-approved transportation appropriations bill that keeps fiscal 2016 highway funding at fiscal 2015 levels.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders have introduced a bill that would extend transportation funding through Dec. 4 to give House and Senate conferees time to negotiate a multiyear measure.

New York and New Jersey announced a deal to allow a long-stalled Amtrak tail runnel project between New York and New Jersey to move full steam ahead.

The Federal Transit Administration estimates that more than $131 billion will be needed for transit systems in poor and marginal condition, including almost $86 billion to replace infrastructure that has already exceeded its useful life, Moody’s Investment Service said in a report issued on Thursday.

As many communities struggle, the capital necessary for investment may be hidden in plain sight with community development finance institutions.

Maryland gets $27.9 million grant to study a 40-mile magnetic levitation train route expected to cost $10 billion.

Oklahoma system will finance almost $900 million of turnpike projects with toll revenue bonds rather than state tax revenues.

Voters in eight states approved 26 of 37 transportation funding proposals on Nov. 3 ballots.

The House adopted a six-year, $325 billion transportation funding measure that must be reconciled by Nov. 20 with Senate's $342 billion plan.

House leaders hope to have a final vote Thursday on a six-year, $325 billion transportation funding bill.

Municipal bonds would be hurt under Republican presidential candidates’ tax reform proposals because the plans would lower or eliminate individual and corporate income tax rates, congressional observers said.

The $325 billion, six-year transportation bill set for a vote this week in the House falls short of the level of funding needed, President Obama said.

The more than 250 amendments filed to the House's proposed six-year highway bill include a proposal to raise the federal gasoline tax by 15 cents.

Virginia’s P3 project pipeline includes seven transportation-related projects that could be financed as public-private partnerships.

How to fund repairs for crumbling infrastructure vexes the biggest of transit agencies and the smallest of states.

The $500 million of federal TIGER grants to transportation projects in 34 states brings the total to $4.6 billion since 2009.

The National Governors Association is calling on newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan to move transportation and online sales tax legislation.

In a second podcast installment with Howard Cure, the Evercore Wealth Management director of muni bond research pinpoints New York regional transit funding challenges with Bond Buyer senior Northeast reporter Paul Burton.

The Senate on Wednesday adopted a short-term extension of federal transportation funding that was approved the previous day by the House.

With more colleges facing fiscal challenges issuing debt for new projects, many higher education institutions are exploring alternative forms of financing, according to Tom Morsch, co-head of Public Financial Management Inc.’s public-private partnership practice.