Transportation industry

Public transit advocates push for $100 billion of federal funding for mass transit over six years in the new surface transportation spending law.

New York's MTA made a formal request for a second federal presidential emergency board to help Long Island Rail Road reach an agreement with eight of its unions.

Georgia plans to begin dredging Savannah Harbor even though President Obama's 2015 budget failed to include federal construction funds for the project.

President Obama will ask Congress in his fiscal 2015 budget proposal for $2.5 billion in transit grants for 26 projects in 16 states.

The Irvine, Calif.-based Transportation Corridor Agencies has placed Chief Executive Officer Neil Peterson on leave after a dust-up involving contract approvals.

Colorado approves a $490 million public-private partnership to redevelop U.S. 36, but a Boulder group renews its threat of a lawsuit.

The full Massachusetts Senate on Thursday is expected to debate a five-year transportation borrowing bill that has risen to $13.2 billion.

A higher cap for federally allocated tax-exempt private activity bonds could make state transportation P3 projects more attractive to investors.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie released $96.6 million for the construction of capital improvement projects at state airports.

President Obama plans during the next two months to send Congress draft legislation for a four-year, $302 billion reauthorization of the surface transportation funding program, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters Tuesday during a briefing on the fiscal 2015 budget.

Kansas City, Mo. will borrow $124 million next week to raise financing needed for its long planned $114 million downtown street car project and restructure debt to give it budgetary breathing room to strengthen its pension funds.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced $100 million in renovations to Boston's Logan Airport, to be funded through Massport's capital plan.

Annual spending on roads and bridges is up to $50 billion short of what is needed to maintain and improve them, U.S. DOT said in report on transportation infrastructure

Indiana tapped a shortlist of four private teams to compete to work on the state's largest public-private partnership, a 47-mile toll highway linking the state to Illinois.

A central Florida grand jury is investigating potential hiring improprieties by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley plans to sign a bill authorizing the use of state gasoline taxes as a backup pledge to bolster future issuances of Garvee bonds.

Proposals to pump up the sagging Highway Trust Fund without raising the federal gasoline tax offer a solution to the highway funding impasse.

Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of key House transportation committee, wants to study two new plans to bolster the sagging Highway Trust Fund

MBTA Retirement Fund officials defended the secretive practices of the $1.6 billion fund, which manages the retirement accounts of Boston-area transit employees.

President Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion surface transportation infrastructure construction and repair program.