Infrastructure

House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan is working on a "limited tax reform" package that could contain revenue for the Highway Trust Fund and extenders and that could be passed this summer.

Dozens of municipal market groups made the case for preserving tax-exempt bond financing and/or easing certain bond restrictions in documents submitted to the Senate Finance Committee’s tax-reform working groups.

Oregon selects the vendors that will collect the vehicle data needed for the nation’s first pay-per-mile road usage program.

House Appropriations subcommittee adopted a fiscal 2016 transportation budget with no increase in highway and transit spending.

The Panama Canal expansion will benefit East Coast local governments near key ports, but West Coast ports will not lose business from the expansion, according to a Moody’s Investors Service report.

A second federal lawsuit has been filed challenging the private activity bond financing for the All Aboard Florida train project; the latest suit comes from Martin County, Fla.

Rep. Rep. Bill Pascrell, who keeps a Lucite encased drinking water pipe in his office as a reminder of the "very serious and urgent" need, has continued to press for his Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act.

Millions of jobs and billions of dollars in state road and transit projects are at risk unless a multiyear federal transportation bill is in place by the end of May, Senate Finance Committee Democrats warned on Tuesday.

A $967 million federal loan for commuter rail safety technology represents "a very favorable position for the MTA," said finance manager Patrick McCoy.

Public-private partnerships may become an important tool for transportation financing, but must overcome political and social hurdles in the U.S.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wants major cost reductions in Purple Line P3 rail proposal or he'll kill the project.

Airline advocates told Senate Commerce Committee members at a hearing on Thursday that there is no need to almost double the federal passenger facility fee that airport executives contend is necessary to fund terminals and other facilities needed to meet projected growth in air traffic.

An economic study says Maryland’s proposed $2.45 billion Purple Line light rail would boost area’s income and job opportunities.

Unclogging the congested road and bridge connections linking ports with land trade routes will cost $29 billion by 2025, an AAPA survey has found.

Proposed state legislation in California would raise the gasoline tax to generate an additional $3 billion a year for transportation projects.

Congressional proposals filed Thursday to bolster the Highway Trust Fund include a a 66% increase in the gasoline tax and corporate tax reform.

Virginia terminated its ties with a toll-road developer after spending almost $300 million on the $1.4 billion project.

A $15.1 billion, 16-year transportation package proposed by Washington State House Democrats includes more than $8 billion of new projects to be funded with an increase in the state gasoline tax and up to $4.3 billion of state general obligation bonds.

Lower pump prices are boosting fuel consumption and vehicle miles traveled, leading to higher gas tax collections, a trend Moody’s Investors Service expects to continue over the near-term.

Tax reform proposals to curb tax exemption for municipal securities would create uncertainty in the market, possibly lead to higher borrowing costs, and hurt infrastructure development, issuer and borrower groups warned a Senate Finance Committee working group this week.