Infrastructure

The federal Department of Transportation signs off on an $840 million loan to a seven-county toll road system around Houston.

Governors presented more optimistic outlooks of their states' economies and finances in their state of the state addresses this year, and many said they would pursue new spending, Moody's Investors Service said in a report.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority picks four finalists for next phase of $5.7 billion light rail extension to Dulles International Airport.

The hot Texas economy is spurring operators of the state's airports and seaports to provide new infrastructure to accommodate the growing state.

The growth of shipping fleets is outstripping demand, leading Moody's Investors Service analysts to slap a negative outlook on U.S. ports for the next 18 months.

The thousands of airline flights cancelled this winter due to severe weather may affect some airports' revenues and cost budgets, Fitch Ratings said.

The American Public Power Association's board of directors has appointed Sue Kelly to become the group's new president and chief executive officer on April 1.

The head of Amtrak said the rapidly depleting federal Highway Trust Fund should be replaced with a Transportation Trust Fund that can invest in rail as well as highways.

Passage of a new federal highway funding bill will require local officials to school Congress, says House Transportation Committee chair Bill Shuster, R-Pa.

Proposed federal legislation would revive state infrastructure banks as a funding option for local transportation projects.

The current U.S. transportation secretary and his predecessor on Thursday each separately warned about the dangers of letting the Highway Trust Fund become insolvent on or before the end of fiscal 2014.

Bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators have joined 50 House members to support a proposed national infrastructure bank funded with $50 billion of 1% bonds.

DOT expects the main federal highway infrastructure fund to run dry in August and post a $100 million deficit before the end of the fiscal year.

Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have established a special bipartisan panel to promote the use of public-private partnerships across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings and water infrastructure

Senate Banking Committee chairman warns that Congress must act to protect the main source of federal transportation funding before it dries up.

The nation's governors support maintaining the tax exemption for municipal bonds, though tax reform appears to be unlikely this year, leaders of the National Governors Association said Wednesday.

A state court ruling stopping California from selling $8 billion of bonds for high-speed rail could result in a cutoff of billion in federal matching funds as well.

House and Senate appropriators unveiled a $1.012 trillion bipartisan omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014 late Monday that would provide funds for transportation and many other programs but not high speed rail.

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday said he expects to have a new funding law for highways, ports, bridges and transit in place before the current one expires on Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2014.

More state transportation P3 projects are on the horizon for 2014 due to declines in state and federal funding streams, Fitch said in a report