Transportation industry

The Port of Los Angeles, an infrequent issuer, plans to price a $339 million combined new money-refunding with AMT and non-AMT the week of Sept. 1.

The Port of Portland is planning to sell nearly $100 million of revenue bonds next week for the Portland International Airport.

States are losing more than $1 billion a year by giving breaks on jet fuel taxes to airlines, the Unite Here International Union said in a new report.

The Louisiana Transportation Funding Task Force holds its first meeting Sept. 10 to begin studying new ways of funding road and bridge projects.

Nevada made a splash earlier this year with plans for its biggest P3 yet. Now the state has reversed course after finding it would be less expensive to manage and fund the project itself.

Oregon, which invented the gasoline tax in 1919, is on the road to be the first state to shift to a mileage-based user fee for highway funding.

Kentucky's auditor wants legislators to restructure the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport board after uncovering questionable expenses, policies.

A long-awaited report that recommends West Virginia issue $1.5 billion in bonds to fund transportation projects will be released in September.

Fitch Ratings shifted its outlook on O'Hare International Airport to stable from negative citing steady air traffic trends and more certainty over American Airlines' future at the airport after the airline's exit from bankruptcy.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority closes on a $1.3 billion federal loan to complete the final 11 miles of a light-rail line to Dulles International Airport.

Even as the city struggles to find funds to repair its own streets, Pocatello, Idaho street repair crews have been doing work in other Southeastern Idaho cities for free.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has begun a program to identify areas under elevated roads, bridges and viaducts for redevelopment opportunities.

Everything from mileage-based fee systems to higher state fuel taxes are on the table as states seek new ways to increase transportation funding.

North Carolina's Fayetteville Public Works Commission plans to price $110 million in revenue bonds in a rare competitive deal.

Georgia privately placed $26 million in bonds to finance the tolling system for a start-up express lane project south of Atlanta.

Airport credits are stabilizing after major shifts in the airline industry, Moody's Investors Service said, but smaller hub airports face challenges.

Phoenix has formed a citizens committee to plan for expansion of the city's light-rail after Mayor Greg Stanton said he wanted to triple the length of the existing system over three decades.

After opening its light rail line to the airport four months early, Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials are pressing on with bond-financed rail development.

Mileage-based fees may one day replace the gasoline tax as the prime source for federal transportation funding, but it won't be quick and it won't be easy.

Running four months ahead of schedule on the light-rail connection to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that opened Monday, Dallas Area Rapid Transit leaders are taking no time to catch their breath after five years of intensive bond-financed development.