Transportation industry

llinois and Indiana's plan to build a controversial $1.3 billion toll-road through public private partnerships cleared a key hurdle as an Illinois-based regional planning committee voted to include the project in the area's long-range plan.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority will kick off $1.2 billion of new money bond sales with a $650 million issuance on Oct. 23.

Anticipating a default by June, Moody's downgraded $1.1 billion of debt for the State Highway 130 toll road near Austin, Texas to Caa3.

Transit historian Peter Derrick says that whatever the cost, unifying New York City's regional commuter rail systems would pay economic dividends.

U.S. transportation sectors are in the doldrums with little increase in activity seen in 2013, Fitch says in new report

Honolulu officials notified a federal judge that they have met the additional environmental requirements for the city's $5.3 billion elevated rail project he outlined in a December 2012 order.

Texas lawmakers may allocate $250 million of unexpected registration fees to reverse a plan to convert some paved state roads to gravel.

Voters in gilt-edged Raleigh and Wake County, N.C., approved selling a total of $885 million of general obligation bonds for schools and transportation projects.

Colorado's Regional Transportation District could expect to spend about $1.4 billion for an extension of its FasTracks rail line to suburbs northwest of Denver, according to a study released Monday.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill exempting the state's transit workers from pension reform while suing the federal government for blocking pension reform for those workers.

The state of Oregon is priced $410 million of revenue bonds for its Department of Transportation.

Indiana is looking for private companies interested in taking over its parking system and possibly building new development in downtown Indianapolis.

Geraldine Knatz, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, announced Thursday, that she will be retiring at the end of the year.

Pennsylvania’s Office of Policy & Public Private Partnerships will accept unsolicited proposals for transportation projects from the private sector through Oct. 31.

Kentucky and Ohio consider options for building and funding a bridge project between Covington, Ky. and Cincinnati that could cost as much as $2.9 billion.

Moody's revised its outlook to developing from negative on Harrisburg parking bonds, pending resolution of the proposed recovery plan in Pennsylvania's capital.

Late U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye was honored Wednesday by the American Public Transportation Association for his efforts championing Honolulu's elevated rail transit project.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation said environmentalists appealed a federal judge's ruling that would have allowed construction to begin on the Bonner Bridge replacement project.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott dropped his opposition to the merger of American Airlines with U.S. Airways, which faces a federal antitrust lawsuit.

Broward County plans to target south Florida's retail investors in selling $434.2 million of bonds for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's $2.3 billion capital program.