Transportation industry

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.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and former FAA chief Jane Garvey will chair an advisory commission that will study the challenges of New York's MTA.

New York's MTA revised its offer to the Long Island Rail Road workers in an attempt to avoid a strike, offering 17% pay increases over seven years, including a retroactive period

The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would extend the authority to spend from the Highway Trust Fund through the end of the calendar year.

An upgrade from S&P helped generate $396 million worth of transportation revenue bond retail orders, according to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

New York's MTA is weighing a proposal for a 16,000-square foot eatery at Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, operated by restaurateur Claus Meyer.

Seleta Reynolds of the San Francisco Department of Transportation was nominated Friday by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be the next general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.

The concession company that operates a portion of Texas' State Highway 130 toll road is negotiating with lenders as it faces default on its June 30 payments, according to Moody's Investors Service.

New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Neal Zuckerman of the Metro-North Railroad Commuter Council will join the board of New York's MTA.

Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the A1 rating on Denver Airport Enterprise's $3.72 billion of revenue bonds and raised the outlook to stable from negative.