Transportation industry

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.

Connecticut received a $700,000 federal grant to study of transit-oriented development in the Hartford line corridor, which covers New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, Mass.

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District will sell more than $350 million of highly-rated refunding bonds next week to refund bonds issued more than a decade ago.

A proposed P3 procurement center at the Transportation Department would assist states in reaching effective agreements with private investors.

As it prepares to sell bonds, the Wayne County Airport Authority, which runs Detroit’s airport, is highlighting its legal and political separations from its struggling home county, which is in the midst of a financial emergency.

Martin County, Fla., filed a petition for writ of certiorari Sept. 3 asking an Orange County court to overturn approval of the $1.75 billion in bonds for Florida’s passenger train project.

California's legislative session ended Friday without a transportation funding plan, but legislative leaders vowed to complete the work through a conference committee this fall.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation won a federal court ruling Friday allowing the state to continue work on the $840 million, 20-mile Monroe Connector Expressway.

Fitch Ratings upgraded the San Francisco Airport Commission's approximately $77.6 million series 1997A and 2000A special facility lease revenue bonds to A-minus from BBB-plus.

Portland, Ore., will need more than $2 billion over the next decade to bring its streets into good shape after years of neglect.