Infrastructure

Fast-growing Texas county forms special planning commission in an effort to block the route of a proposed high-speed rail line.

Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., wants to almost double current federal gasoline and diesel taxes to raise more revenue for highway funding.

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have included two new bond-related projects on their priority guidance plan for 2015-2016.

The North Carolina House puts a proposed $1.7 billion road infrastructure plan on fast track.

Higher than expected revenues gives Missouri the needed matching funds for federal road dollars in 2017.

President Obama signed Congress's latest transportation funding extension while criticizing lawmakers for the short-term HTF fix.

Requests for $500 million of federal TIGER grants available in fiscal 2015 total $9.8 billion, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.

Senators avoided an Aug. 1 shutdown of highway projects by passing the House’s three-month HTF extension.

The developer of the All Aboard Florida private passenger train system plans to quickly issue $1.75 billion of private activity bonds after approval of the deal.

The $8 billion, three-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund avoids a project shutdown in August.

Credits of the U.S. publicly owned airport sector and the crucial role of airport management are undervalued by the major ratings agencies despite their blemish-proof record, Kroll Bond Rating Agency said in a new report.

House plans to leave for a long recess Wednesday after voting on a 90-day extension of federal highway funding.

Revenue offsets in the Senate's six-year transportation funding bill are $1 billion short of proposed general fund transfers.

Senate leaders hope to vote on a $300 billion transportation bill by mid-week as funding cutoff looms.

Senate debate gets under way on $317 billion, six-year transportation bill after Democrats soften opposition to revenue measures.

House leaders from both parties say the Senate should drop a multiyear bill and adopt a short-term HTF extension.

The Senate will move forward with a compromise six-year transportation funding bill hammered out over the weekend in negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., despite a setback on a procedural vote on Tuesday.

Senate Republican leaders are working on a multiyear transportation bill that would resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by dedicating roughly $40 billion of additional revenue to it from a variety of sources.

Virginia will eliminate tolls on two tunnels under construction with $78 million saved by cancelling a P3 road project.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hopes that one day, parents will give their kids infrastructure bonds for the holidays.