Transportation industry

A last-minute compromise ensures that a $4.7 billion transit plan for Detroit will be on November ballot.

A political brawl involving a bone-dry transportation trust fund and a pension-funding referendum continues as New Jersey lawmakers reconvene.

The control board appointed a year ago to get a handle on the troubled Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is beginning to show progress, though much work remains, Massachusetts transit advocates say.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft feasibility report on a project to make the Port of Seattle one of North America's deepest harbors.

Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line P3 in jeopardy after federal judge halts the project over ridership worries.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposes more than $500 billion of new federal infrastructure investments.

A compromise agreement to put a tax hike on the November ballot that would help fund a $4.7 billion mass transit funding package for Southeastern Michigan could be voted on Thursday.

States only have until Aug. 20 to designate highway corridors where electric vehicle charging stations can be built under a new administration program that will provide $4.5 billion of loan guarantees to public-private partnerships and other collaborative efforts to develop and deploy a network of such stations.

Intercity passenger, freight, and bullet train projects are eligible for a little-used program of federal low-interest loans and guarantees.

The Southeast Michigan Regional Transit Authority failed to secure enough votes to put a 20-year transportation millage on the Nov. 8 ballot in a vote taken this week.

Miami-Dade County will price $365 million of tax exempt non-AMT refunding bonds and $377 million of taxable bonds on Wednesday.

Road, transit, and rail projects in 32 states share $500 million in latest round of competitive TIGER grants.

Wisconsin lawmakers warn that a looming $940 million road revenue gap may require a higher gasoline tax.

Four transportation agencies in California's three largest metropolitan areas have placed tax measures on November's ballot.

New York MTA expects to save roughly $152 million in interest from its planned $1 billion sale of Hudson Yards lease securitization bonds, said CFO Robert Foran.

Transit providers in 13 states will share $55 million in federal smog-busting bus grants.

The New Jersey State Senate is pressing ahead with a new gas tax bill to replenish the state's Transportation Trust Fund despite opposition from Gov. Chris Christie.

Americans favor funding transportation with an increase in the federal gasoline tax dedicated to maintenance.

The Federal Transit Administration granted Honolulu additional time for a recovery plan to deal with cost overruns on its elevated rail project.

Four Ohio Congressmen are concerned that the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department's proposed definition of a political subdivision could impede a $35 million terminal improvement project for one of the state's regional airports.