Transportation industry

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to vote on a bill Thursday that would transfer almost $11 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it solvent through May 31, 2015.

Moody's Investors Service Raised its Outlook on Harris County Toll Road Authority’s Aa3 rating to positive, signaling a possible upgrade.

New York MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast plans to visit congressional leaders in Washington after talks with Long Island Rail Road unions settled nothing.

Standard & Poor's affirmed its A-plus ratings on Charlotte, N.C.'s $838 million in airport revenue bonds issued for Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Erica Borggren, the Illinois director of veteran affairs, was named acting secretary of the Transportation Department following Ann Schneider's resignation after questions were raised over the department's hiring practices.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy on July 7 announced a $19.2 million package of state funding for six development and improvement projects in downtown Waterbury, as well as funding to redesign the signal system for Metro-North Railroad’s Waterbury commuter branch.

Congress must quickly fix the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund without waiting for an executive order, President Obama said.

The Massachusetts Port Authority will come to market with a sale of $251.7 million of bonds for Logan International Airport improvements and refunding.

President Obama's warning that federal transportation funding will dry up is a scare tactic aimed at raising taxes, a conservative group said.

President Obama challenged Congress Tuesday on its inability to resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation and a consortium of eight Long island Rail Road unions are scheduled to meet before the National Mediation Board.

Central and west Florida expressway authorities are set to expand after Gov. Rick Scott signed two bills into law. One creates a new Central Florida Expressway Authority replacing the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

A $1 billion plan to create Austin's first urban rail system and to consider other transportation developments won unanimous endorsement from the city council.

Keolis, 70%-owned by the French national railway SNCF, assumed Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail operations.

The Indiana Finance Authority will sell $250 million of private activity bonds to finance a public-private partnership for a stretch of Interstate 69 that state officials say will be key to the state's future economic health.

The 114-mile segment of California's high speed rail project from Fresno to Bakersfield received the record of decision from U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration enabling it to break ground on that segment.

Nationwide poll finds most Americans would support a higher gas tax if revenues are dedicated to highway and transit projects.

The Head of the Senate Finance Committee will work with chairman of House Ways and Means for a quick, temporary fix to the fast-depleting Federal Highway Trust Fund.

New York's MTA would draw down an additional $40 million annually in pay-as-you-go funding under its offer to LIRR unions, chairman Thomas Prendergast said.

Sen. Barbara Boxer supports a proposal for a six-month patch to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through 2014.