Transportation industry

States can begin expending their share of the $39.7 billion of federal transportation funding provided in fiscal 2016 by the new FAST Act.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will not propose an increase in the state’s gasoline and diesel taxes during the 2016 legislative session.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s 5% budget increase for fiscal 2017 allots more funds for transportation and $850 million in bonds for capital projects.

Indiana lawmakers are considering three competing proposals to provide additional funding for state transportation projects.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback plans to cut $25 million in highway spending and enact other cuts as revenue continues to fall.

Andrew Cuomo proposed a $145.3 billion budget for the 2017 fiscal year and reiterated his call for transformative infrastructure initiatives in his State of the State speech.

Capital needs are rising in the public transportation sector as aging infrastructure must be repaired or replaced, S&P says.

A report critical of Gov. Gina Raimondo's plan to toll trucks on Rhode Island's interstate highways stems from a trucking industry agenda, says a Raimondo spokeswoman.

Gov. Gina Raimondo’s plan to impose highway tolls on trucks in Rhode Island is based on faulty revenue projections, said a trucking industry-commissioned study.

Missouri will go ahead with planned road work with unexpected jump in gas tax revenues and a five-year extension of federal highway funding.

Charles W. Hoppe, president of Long Island Rail Road from 1990 to 1994, died at age 80, officials from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced.

Omnibus federal budget law revives more than $2 billion of unexpended state road earmarks for new use.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is slated to sell $149 million of revenue bonds later this week to refund old debt.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a tech modernization program for the MTA, including expanded Wi-Fi hotspots, accelerating mobile payments and ticketing to replace the MetroCard.

Plans for a $1 billion electric car factory in North Las Vegas are a credit positive for Clark County and Nevada, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Nebraska would accelerate work on an unfinished expressway with funding from a proposed transportation infrastructure bank.

The U.S. Department of Transportation gave All Aboard Florida another year to issue $1.75 billion of private activity bonds for its $3.5 billion passenger train project.

The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce wants a $600 million increase in annual transportation funding.

Calling for a massive overhaul of New York’s Penn Station was easy for Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Now come the questions.

The chair of California’s Assembly Committee on Transportation unveiled legislation he said would provide revenue to meet the state’s serious transportation needs.