Infrastructure

Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., said he would like to see a revival of the Build America Bond program included in a long-term highway bill.

Focus on a controversial, stand-still federal transportation appropriations bill shifts to the Senate after narrow House passage.

House Democrats and a conservation think tank line up to oppose a transportation appropriations bill that freezes highway funding.

A Florida attorney who says his property will be devalued by a private passenger train wants to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging tax-exempt financing for the project.

Maryland wants to investigate the feasibility of a magnetic levitation train between Baltimore and Washington.

Virginia will decide in November whether to proceed with $3 billion toll lane project as P3 or use conventional financing.

The continuing series of short-term road funding fixes is harming small businesses, owners and advocates say.

With more than one-third of New York's bridges listed in need of repair, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,D-N.Y., is proposing a bill that would allow states the authority to use more federal funds for local bridge improvement projects.

As Mayor of Corning, N.Y., Tom Reed saw how capital could be raised for road, water and sewer improvements through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds.

President Obama threatens to veto a House committee's fiscal 2016 transportation appropriations bill over low funding levels.

Fitch says states will delay transportation projects due to uncertainty over the most recent short-term extension of the federal HTF.

A long-term transportation bill offered by the Senate Finance Committee would be likely to include some new type of private-activity bond, a Government Finance Officers Association official said here.

Sponsors of a high-speed passenger rail train project in Florida want an authority to issue $1.75 billion of private-activity bonds for it as soon as June 22, while a U.S. District Court considers requests from two counties to enjoin or stop the Transportation Dept.’s allocation of the PABs to the project.

A $2.3 billion transportation funding program was proposed for federal lands following closure of a disintegrating Washington bridge.

Bills that would put in place President Obama’s six-year, $487 billion transportation proposal or set up regional clearing-houses for public-private partnerships were recently introduced and are pending before Congress.

Special highways panel says West Virginia needs to increase transportation funding by $1.1 billion per year.

States have pulled back up to $2 billion of scheduled road projects due to uncertain federal transportation funding.

Few options that could provide enough revenue to increase transportation spending seem politically feasible, Moody’s says in new report.

Congressional study says airports lack adequate infrastructure because revenues for airport expansions and improvements are limited.

Rep. Brian Higgins, R-N.Y. has introduced a bill that would direct the Transportation Department to establish a competitive grant program for state and local governments, as well as transit and port authorities, to help finance their infrastructure projects.