Infrastructure

The House and Senate seem to be playing a political game of chicken with the Highway Trust Fund, sending differing bills to extend its solvency back and forth just two days before federal officials have threatened to begin cutting back on federal transportation reimbursements to states if there is an impasse

Maryland asks four consortiums for proposals to build and finance $2.4 billion Purple Line commuter rail project.

The Senate adopted legislation that would provide a five-month, $8 billion bailout of the Highway Trust Fund that extends the fund's solvency through mid-December.

Highway construction project awards slacken in 2014 as states gird for possible delays, cuts in federal transportation spending.

Trains are now carrying passengers on the first segment of Washington rail system extension funded with $3 billion of federal loans and toll revenue bonds.

The Agriculture Department and CoBank have formed a $10 billion fund to spur private investment in rural public infrastructure.

Allowing states to toll existing highways as an infrastructure funding option divides transportation industry advocates.

Three senators hope to offer an amendment on Senate floor that rejects budget gimmicks and requires passage in 2014 of a longer term transportation funding measure.

The ailing Highway Trust Fund needs a long-term answer, not another short-term patch, says Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx

The $11 billion, 10-month legislative bailout of the Highway Trust Fund adopted overwhelmingly by the House would stymie the best chance for a long-term solution for transportation funding, according to most industry experts.

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority will close on about $450 million of debt July 23, most of it in the form of a historic green century bond issuance that DC Water's chief financial officer is crediting with introducing new investors to the large, frequent issuer.

President Obama announced a new federal effort to connect local governments with private investor partners in transportation infrastructure projects during his visit Thursday to a shuttered bridge in Delaware.

The House adopted a 10-month, $10.8 billion short-term fix for the almost insolvent Highway Trust Fund.

Chances for swift passage of a billion bailout of the highway fund rise with Obama's support of the House's temporary fix.

An economic study that stresses the value of investments in transportation is part of a weeklong effort by President Obama to get a long-term highway funding bill.

The Army Corps of Engineers is developing policies and procedures for a pilot program of partnering with private sector investors on waterway and port projects, a top Corps official told a House subcommittee.

House and Senate tax-writing committees approved similar but not identical 10-month, $10.8 billion bailouts of the almost-depleted Highway Trust Fund, with each chairman contending his panel's bill is the most bipartisan measure.

The current failure of House and Senate negotiators to find common ground on a short-term fix for the almost-insolvent Highway Trust Fund may not mean the ailing fund won't be patched, transportation experts said Wednesday.

The chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority got the message he expected in Washington: Congress will not step in should LIRR workers strike.

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to vote on a bill Thursday that would transfer almost $11 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it solvent through May 31, 2015.