Infrastructure

North Dakota and other rural states led the Reason Foundation's performance rankings of state highway systems based on 2009 data, while more populous states including New Jersey, California and New York found themselves toward the bottom of the ratings.

Anthony Foxx was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Transportation Tuesday morning in a private ceremony at the department's headquarters.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has released a draft report showing 10 candidate and 10 conceptual transportation projects that could move forward as public-private partnerships in the commonwealth.

A bipartisan, bicameral foursome reintroduced legislation that would authorize $50 billion of tax-credit bonds over six years.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said farewell Thursday and gave praise to his department after serving there for over four years.

Virginia is continuing its push to be the leading public-private partnership state, opening a bustling travel corridor to private sector involvement a day after a major infrastructure firm announced it has moved its U.S. headquarters to the commonwealth.

The Senate voted a unanimous 100-0 Thursday to confirm Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Public-private partnership, a financing model that has started to spread across the U.S., may face some challenges as Congress debates limits on the federal role in infrastructure, according to Simon Santiago, leader of Nossaman LLP's east coast infrastructure practice.

The American Road and Transportation Builders Alliance will focus on a potentially trend-setting challenge to a prominent Virginia public-private partnership at the group's annual conference July 24-26.

Former President Bill Clinton strongly urged Washington Tuesday to pass a national infrastructure bank bill and encouraged state and local governments to embrace more public-private partnerships.

Australian infrastructure giant Transurban will concede the 8.8-mile Pocahontas Parkway toll road in southeast Virginia back to its lenders because the road failed to live up to its revenue projections.

Municipalities throughout Virginia will receive a share of nearly $155 million in state funds to help with infrastructure projects, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Friday.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to A1 from Aa3 the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's $5 billion of airport revenue bonds.

A U.S. House panel has given initial approval to an appropriations bill that would slash funding from programs that support public infrastructure projects as part of an effort to cut federal transportation and housing spending by $7.7 billion.

Providence, R.I. Mayor Angel Taveras desires $39 million in federal TIGER grant money to help fund a streetcar project he called essential to the city's comeback.

The Highway Trust Fund will need an additional $85 billion in U.S. general fund transfers over the next six years just to keep the program operating despite recent events that have shown that current spending is not enough, a Department of Transportation official told a Senate Panel Thursday.

The Senate is expected to vote on whether to confirm Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx as Secretary of the Transportation Department during the next few weeks, but has not yet scheduled the vote, a congressional aide said Tuesday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that his agency received applications for $9 billion of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants, when only $474 million is available.

The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, on Monday named Sens. Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal to lead two subcommittees.

With the nation's state and local governments already financing some 75% of America's public infrastructure and the federal surface transportation program on the brink of insolvency, the Finance Committee paper is a recipe for undermining the single most critical source of financing the nation's public infrastructure.