Transportation industry

Standard & Poor's raised St. Louis’s parking revenue bonds by one notch as the credit profile received a boost from a recent rate increase.

The five-year federal transportation funding act and state initiatives will boost infrastructure construction next year, ARTBA said.

New York’s MTA says it has substantially completed two significant contracts on East Side Access, the megaproject intended to bring LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal.

President Obama signed a five-year, $305 billion transportation funding bill on Friday.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced an agreement with Amtrak to complete Hartford line commuter rail service between New Haven and Springfield.

The House passed a multiyear transportation funding bill on Thursday that provides $305 billion over five years.

Motor fuel tax revenues and gambling tax funds owed to local governments in Illinois would begin flowing again under legislation advancing with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s support.

General revenue offsets totaling $70 billion in the five-year highway bill must cover a shortfall in gas tax collections.

Philadelphia International Airport CEO Mark Gale is retiring after six years running the nation’s 12th busiest airport.

The transportation conference committee on Tuesday reported a five-year bill that provides $305 billion of federal funding.

The conference committee on the transportation bill revived a transit funding program aimed at congested urban areas.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is planning a $6.5 billion 2016 spending plan that funds major transportation projects, the agency announced Monday.

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton proposed $275 billion of new federal infrastructure funding at a campaign rally in Boston on Sunday.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said he expects Congress to agree on a multiyear highway bill by Christmas.

How New York’s MTA communicated amid Hurricane Sandy could provide a digital-age blueprint for any transit crisis.

The recent $20 billion funding agreement for the long-stalled Gateway Hudson River tunnel will benefit the New York and New Jersey regional economies, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Existing P3 arrangement will be expanded by Virginia to include tolls on high-occupancy interstate highway lanes near Washington, D.C.

A compromise measure reconciling House and Senate transportation funding bills could be ready for action next week.

In one of its largest deals in recent years, the Kansas Department of Transportation will issue $400 million of revenue bonds for its “T-Works” highway program.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s $60 million of ongoing terminal and parking projects are on time and on budget, airport officials told the City Council in a progress report Nov. 18.