Transportation industry

The Tri-county Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon will sell $133.6 million of triple-A rated payroll tax bonds Sept. 9.

Expectations of nearly $1 billion in new revenue for rebounding Michigan would not be enough to offset shortfalls if the Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder enact a plan to rely on the general fund to finance road repairs, warns a new report.

Texas voters will consider more than $8.7 billion of local bond proposals Nov. 3 while weighing another $2.5 billion for transportation funding statewide, according to final tally of ballot items.

Latest in a series of annual polls on transportation funding finds public will accept increase of gasoline tax if revenue dedicated to road work.

Already outpacing all other issuers in the Southwest this year, the Texas Transportation Commission is going to market with $1 billion of triple-A-rated bonds.

Wisconsin takes competitive bids on $391 million of general obligation debt Tuesday with more than half earmarked for transportation projects.

The former head of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority has joined Chicago Treasurer Kurt Summer's office.

Chicago's efforts to solve its pension funding crisis could negatively impact O'Hare International Airport's growth prospects, Moody's Investors Service warns in a new report that otherwise offered the city good credit news in affirming the airport's debt.

State lawmakers have authorized more than $8 billion of new road bonds in 2015, with billions more of new revenues up to the voters in fall elections.

Workers began installing the first sections of rail on the Long Island Rail Road's $388 million Double Track Project, funded in the MTA capital plans.

Transportation advocates target 16 members of key House committees with radio ads for multiyear highway and transit funding.

The reconstruction New York's LaGuardia Airport could trigger more public-private partnerships including the proposed air-train connector, P3 experts say.

Livery-service tax overhaul could help fill the $2.6 billion gap in New York MTA's proposed capital plan, said the Citizens Budget Commission.

Phoenix voters have approved a $31.7 billion transportation plan funded by an increase in a dedicated sales tax.

A federal judge this week sided with Ohio when he dismissed a lawsuit challenging the use of Ohio Turnpike toll revenue to fund projects that aren't on the turnpike itself.

The New York Power Authority finished $2.1 million in energy efficiency upgrades at the MTA's Metro-North Railroad North White Plains Train Yard.

Fast-growing Montomery County north of Houston will vote again on $280 million of road bonds that were defeated in 2014, county commissioners decided.

Virginia's proposed $2.1 billion project to reduce congestion on Interstate 66 can go ahead as a public-private partnership.

A local engineering firm and its founder made a $2 million donation that provides one quarter of the local matching funds needed to qualify for federal grants on a $119 million runway project.

A $1 billion funding gap could jeopardize completion of the Green Line streetcar extension north of Boston, Massachusetts transportation officials say.