Transportation industry

New York's MTA will review its $152 million contract with its paratransit Access-a-Ride service provider after employees told board members of mistreatment.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved a 75-year lease with a developer to transform the former TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy Airport into a hotel complex.

Longtime Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) Executive Director James T. McDermott Jr. is planning to retire on April 15, 2016,

New York’s MTA expects to resubmit its five-year capital program request to state officials by the end of next month, Chairman Thomas Prendergast said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells road planners to look at projects that eliminate bottlenecks and reduce traffic congestion.

Major bond-financed investments have been paying off for some of Northern California’s smaller airports, which have seen their multi-billion dollar projects followed by more airline and passenger business.

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority prices $215.15 million of bonds subject to the alternative minimum tax on Wednesday to support Orlando International Airport's $3 billion capital plan.

The Federal Highway Administration filed a motion Tuesday dropping its appeal of an adverse lower court ruling that the government illegally approved the controversial $1.5 billion Illiana toll road project.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s operating budget is unsustainable, said a report by its new fiscal oversight board.

An airport group wants airlines to drop their opposition to higher passenger facility fees that finance local infrastructure.

Chicago plans as much as $3 billion of airport, wastewater revenue, and general obligation borrowing -- mostly for refunding and restructuring purposes -- that officials say can’t wait on an improved market climate for city debt.

Colorado Department of Transportation executive Michael Cheroutes moves to the private sector Oct. 1 as founder of the Colorado Center for Infrastructure Investment, a nonprofit that will consult on public-private partnerships.

Oregon must spend an additional $3.6 billion over the next 20 years to keep aging state highway bridges at current conditions, Oregon DOT says.

The trustee for the Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority’s defaulted toll bridge bonds wants to sue the state if enough bondholders step forward to authorize the legal challenge.

After achieving net present value savings of $65 million on a $764 million refunding, the North Texas Tollway Authority is preparing for its financial close on the deal Sept. 24.

With its largest U.S. project recently completed in Dallas, the nation’s top builder of private toll roads is preparing to pitch Colorado on a major redevelopment of Interstate 70 in metro Denver.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has tapped Jeffrey D. Knueppel as the agency’s new general manager replacing the retiring Joseph Casey.

Low balances in the Highway Trust Fund could result in delayed reimbursements to states for transportation projects by Thanksgiving.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are rated as the most infrastructure-friendly candidates in the 2016 presidential field.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo delivered a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday outlining a framework aimed at achieving funding for a new trans-Hudson commuter rail tunnel.