Transportation industry

Pima County, Ariz., Regional Transportation Authority will issue its second $150 million issue with an upgrade from Standard & Poor's.

Facing financial straits the Regional Transportation District is considering using bus rapid transit instead of a costly rail line to Denver's northwestern suburbs.

Chicago hits the market Thursday with $784 million of new-money and refunding Midway Airport bonds that will nearly wrap up a restructuring aimed at strengthening its debt portfolio.

Travel executives say under-investment in U.S. transportation infrastructure threatens the nation's global standing.

The Florida Department of Transportation axed a proposal for developers to finance, design, and build the state's first privately operated tolled expressway.

Proposals to keep federal transportation funding at current levels will worsen the existing backlog of transit system deferred maintenance.

Southwest Airlines' newfound freedom to begin serving long-haul destinations from Dallas Love Field Airport in October poses risks for smaller airports left behind, Fitch Ratings warns.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins infrastructure investor Meridiam North America as senior advisor.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015 transportation budget that keeps federal highway funding at 2014 levels.

The risk of a Long Island Rail Road strike hovers over officials at New York's MTA, even as board members approved a five-year deal with its subway workers.

Federal, state and local elected officials joined LA Metro in announcing the receipt of a $1.25 billion full funding grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration for its Purple Line subway extension.

Airport infrastructure public-private partnerships are often stymied by a web of competing local interests, aviation advocates told a House P3 panel.

Moody's Investors Service Tuesday downgraded $975 million in outstanding Clark County, Nevada Airport Enterprise senior lien bonds to Aa3. The bonds are for Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport.

Moody's said $2 billion in federal loans for a commuter train service extension into Virginia's Fairfax and Loudoun counties is a credit positive.

Georgia plans to issue $152.7 million in bonds for various transportation projects, including the reconstruction of an interchange at Interstate 285 and Georgia 400.

President Obama used his weekly address to criticize House Republicans for chopping the TIGER grant program to $100 million in 2015.

Oklahoma is selling a rail line that may bring passenger service to the state's two largest cities and tank cars to the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World."

Moody's downgraded the Jackson International Airport to Baa1 from A3 just three weeks before Southwest Airlines pulls out of the Mississippi capital.

Congress is expected to pass a compromise water infrastructure bill this week that funds 34 projects totaling $12 billion.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation won federal approval to resume work on the $900 million, 20-mile Monroe Bypass project stalled by a federal ruling.