Transportation industry

California Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block federal aid to the state's high speed rail project.

Projects in South Carolina’s $5 billion infrastructure request includes interstate highway upgrades and harbor dredging.

DALLAS – President Trump’s infrastructure proposal’s reliance on public-private partnerships to rebuild America’s crumbling highways would provide limited benefits to urban areas while leaving rural states out of the mix, according to a coalition of truckers and shippers opposed to tolls on interstate highways.

Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., introduces bill to obtain revenues for the Highway Trust Fund and New Democrat Coalition forms infrastructure task force.

Tennessee House GOP leaders are at odds with Republican Gov. Bill Haslam over road funding proposals.

President Trump’s promise of infrastructure action in first 100 days slipping away, experts say.

Darryl Irick is acting president of the MTA's New York City Transit unit, interim executive director Ronnie Hakim announced.

A federal court should dismiss two lawsuits challenging bond financing for the All Aboard Florida train project because the new administration will review future private-activity bond applications, court filings said.

Business executives tell House panel there are many avenues to increase infrastructure funding.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission has approved a $475 million bond issuance for a planned replacement of the 57-year old Scudder Falls Bridge that links New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Underwriters interested in working on nearly $1 billion of planned borrowing by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority over the next three years have until Friday to apply.

Participants in last year's historic $2.4 billion public-private partnership to fund a $4 billion development of New York City's LaGuardia Airport hope the unique deal fuels similar bond transactions at other U.S. airports.

Louisiana may rely on a P3 to finance the widening and other upgrades to Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge.

The sale of bankrupt Hanjin Shipping’s majority stake in a terminal operator that represented 30% of Port of Long Beach’s revenues in 2015 is a credit positive for the port.

Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim will be the interim executive director of New York’s MTA and Fernando Ferrer its interim chairman, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Republicans in Wisconsin legislature ask planners for more realistic estimates of highway project costs.

The cost of major road projects in Wisconsin is twice as much as highway planners estimated, audit finds.

The Port of Oakland this week asked a large stakeholder task force to look for operating efficiencies in preparation for an ambitious construction agenda this year.

President Trump’s order to streamline environmental permits is expected to ensure that get projects underway sooner.

The Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey should cease to own or operate transportation infrastructure, substituting ownership with private concession agreements, said a report.