Transportation industry

Approval of a $1.9 billion federal transportation loan for the $5.7 billion Silver Line rail extension to Washington's Dulles Airport is the largest ever awarded.

Patrick A. Nowakowski, the executive director of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, will be the next president of Long Island Rail Road, the MTA announced.

The Missouri Senate has approved a measure sending to voters a sale tax hike to fund transportation projects.

Tolling and transit advocates praise the $302 billion transportation legislation now in Congress, but others doubt lawmakers will act before the November elections.

Florida lawmakers are in a last-minute push to replace the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority on the heels of a scandal that dogs the agency.

Houston plans to demolish Terminal D at Bush Intercontinental Airport and build a replacement at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominated John J. Degnan to be the new chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday.

President Obama sent to Congress a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation funding bill that ends the prohibition on tolling existing interstate highways.

A new credit issued by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority secured by payroll mobility tax revenues should be its highest rated, according to finance director Patrick McCoy.

Atlanta hopes a new financial incentive program will stimulate international air cargo and passenger growth at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

New York's MTA board is weighing an $11 million addition to its $429 million contract with Bombardier and Siemens for train controls that would inhibit speeding.

With more than $6 billion invested in airport rail links, cities in the Southwest envision a new way of doing business.

The Alaska Legislature adjourned Friday after passing a revised version of the Knik Arm Bridge bill which would transfer control of the $900 million project to the State Department of Revenue.

Wells Fargo links limited supply of transportation infrastructure bonds to uncertainty over federal funding.

New York's MTA expects its tentative five-year deal with Transport Workers Union Local 100 to cost $525 million, according to an authority document.

Chicago announced Friday that the CTA has secured a $79 million transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan to help fund a new $240 million 95th Street Terminal on a Chicago Transit Authority light-rail line.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has named David Tyeryar as the agency's new chief financial officer.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority accepted the first segment of the $5.7 billion Silver Line train extension to Dulles Airport from the contractor.

Lack of congressional action to replenish the dwindling Highway Trust Fund means aging bridges will continue to deteriorate.

Alaska's $900 million project to build a bridge over the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet is a step closer to construction as the new funding plan makes its way through the state legislature.