Infrastructure

Senate Appropriations subcommittee approved legislation that would keep federal highway funding at 2014 levels next year while increasing transit spending by $310 million.

HUD's post-Sandy program awarded combined $540 million for a 10-mile berm along Manhattan's Lower East Side, a living breakwater along Staten Island's shore and protection for the Hunts Point food market and Long Island waterways.

House GOP leaders propose cutting Saturday mail deliveries and use the savings to fund highway projects.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., will propose a 12 cent per gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax to support highway and transit projects.

A bill introduced in the Senate mirrors legislation pending in the House proposal to remove the state volume cap on private activity bonds issued for water utility projects.

Qualified 501(c)(3) bonds are a financing tool that can be used to grow nonprofits' clean-energy infrastructure and reduce their energy expenditures, the Clean Energy and Bond Finance Initiative said in a recently released paper.

P3s are useful financial tools, not magical risk-free solutions, for increased state funding of transportation projects, NASBO says.

More oversight is needed of how the Transportation Department awards TIGER transportation grants, Government Accountability Office says in a new report.

Efforts are under way in Congress to amend a new federal loan program for water infrastructure that excludes tax-exempt bonds from the project funding package.

Travel executives say under-investment in U.S. transportation infrastructure threatens the nation's global standing.

Proposals to keep federal transportation funding at current levels will worsen the existing backlog of transit system deferred maintenance.

The Senate passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Thursday by 91-7, two days after the House approved it.

Southwest Airlines' newfound freedom to begin serving long-haul destinations from Dallas Love Field Airport in October poses risks for smaller airports left behind, Fitch Ratings warns.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins infrastructure investor Meridiam North America as senior advisor.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015 transportation budget that keeps federal highway funding at 2014 levels.

Federal, state and local elected officials joined LA Metro in announcing the receipt of a $1.25 billion full funding grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration for its Purple Line subway extension.

The House passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Tuesday that funds 34 port, inland waterway, and dam projects.

Airport infrastructure public-private partnerships are often stymied by a web of competing local interests, aviation advocates told a House P3 panel.

President Obama used his weekly address to criticize House Republicans for chopping the TIGER grant program to $100 million in 2015.

Kent Hiteshew, the director of the Treasury Department's new office of state and local finance, described the office's initial areas of focus and asked municipal government finance officials to provide input about how the office could be helpful.