Transportation industry

Senators avoided an Aug. 1 shutdown of highway projects by passing the House’s three-month HTF extension.

Connecticut bond panel approval of $546 million in GO bonds, including a block of Gov. Dannel Malloy’s priority transportation, raises questions about debt load.

Lawmakers in Sacramento are trying to solve a very big and expensive puzzle: how to fund California’s estimated $5.7 billion annual infrastructure funding gap.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel submitted bonding ordinances to authorize up to $2 billion of O’Hare airport borrowing as well as $675 million of general obligation and wastewater debt.

The developer of the All Aboard Florida private passenger train system plans to quickly issue $1.75 billion of private activity bonds after approval of the deal.

The $8 billion, three-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund avoids a project shutdown in August.

Credits of the U.S. publicly owned airport sector and the crucial role of airport management are undervalued by the major ratings agencies despite their blemish-proof record, Kroll Bond Rating Agency said in a new report.

MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast called on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to quintuple the city's capital plan contribution to $3.2 billion.

House plans to leave for a long recess Wednesday after voting on a 90-day extension of federal highway funding.

Dallas sees strong demand for $109 million of bonds for a badly needed parking garage as the city deals with an airline battle for gates at the remodeled airport.

Beyond the initial cheerleading, questions about transit pieces follow the announced construction of a new LaGuardia Airport in New York.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants the governors of New Jersey and New York to meet with him in two weeks to advance a stalled Hudson River tunnel project.

Vice President Joseph Biden, who once likened New York’s LaGuardia Airport to a “third world country,” joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo to announce its rebuilding.

The Port Miami Tunnel project has received the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships 2015 Infrastructure Project Award.

Revenue offsets in the Senate's six-year transportation funding bill are $1 billion short of proposed general fund transfers.

In its only deal of the year, Colorado's Regional Transportation District will issue $200 million of certificates of participation to purchase buses, rail cars and other elements of its growing mass transit system.

Senate leaders hope to vote on a $300 billion transportation bill by mid-week as funding cutoff looms.

New York City should ramp up its contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital program to $3 billion, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

Massachusetts Port Authority officials say upgrades from two rating agencies boosted their $171.5 million revenue bond sale.

Airlines that operate at the Kansas City International Airport and a city study group prefer a new terminal to renovations of the existing one.