Transportation industry

Both houses of the Texas Legislature debated a compromise measure to provide more than $800 million per year for transportation funding as their second special session neared the end.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation that paves the way for the use of public private partnership to build the long-planned third Chicago regional airport in the far southwest suburbs.

Charlotte, N.C., officials are examining their options after lawmakers passed a second bill taking operations of Charlotte Douglas International Airport away from the city.

Ohio is offering $1.1 billion of bonds backed by a new junior-lien credit pledge from the Ohio Turnpike Tuesday in a transaction key to the state's plan to shore up its long-term infrastructure spending.

The financing structure of Orange County Transportation Authority's $124 million refunding planned for Tuesday represents an evolution in financing for managed lane projects.

Connecticut's Bond Commission on Friday approved more than $537 million in state funds to finance transportation construction and maintenance projects.

Massachusetts lawmakers overrode Gov. Deval Patrick's veto of a $500 million transportation funding bill that will raise the gasoline tax by 3 cents per gallon.

Arkansas will issue $500 million of 10-year bonds for highway projects in September, down from an initial projection of $1.3 billion of new debt. More pay-as-you-go financing will be used.

Three leaders of Senate committees that oversee transportation are calling for colleagues to work together to address the Highway Trust Fund shortfall that is expected to occur after the current funding law expires on Sept. 30, 2014.

California's plans for a $68 billion high-speed rail system attracted Katherine Perez-Estolano, one of the state's most well-known transportation planners, to its board despite a series of issues faced by the project.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said his office is trying to make sure that money authorized for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program is being quickly loaned out for projects, though experts said the process could be improved.

A watchdog group asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an ethics investigation into a potential conflict of interest involving the David Valadao, R-Calif. on legislation aimed at killing California's high-speed rail project.

Georgia has chosen Northwest Express Roadbuilders to negotiate a contract for the construction of the 30-mile, managed-lane Northwest Corridor project.

Kentucky is selling $207.7 million of Garvees to partially fund its $1.3 billion bridge project known as the "Downtown Crossing" because it traverses Louisville.

To keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent in 2015, Congress would need to eliminate highway and mass transit spending from the fund, raise taxes on motor fuels by about 10 cents/gallon or transfer about $15 billion from the general fund, a Congressional Budget Office official told lawmakers Tuesday.

A court fight is under way between the city of Charlotte and the North Carolina General Assembly over the ownership of Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

The Obama administration said on Monday that the president will veto the fiscal 2013 appropriations bill for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development pending in the House if it is enacted in its current form because of cuts to bond-related and other programs.

Transit officials from several New York City-area agencies are talking about a new Penn Station by 2035, but that's far too late for Charles Moerdler.

New York's MTA said Monday it would spend $18 million to restore and improve service on subways, buses and commuter trains that it cut sharply three years ago.

The Port of Oakland approved a litigation settlement agreement that extends lease agreements that were set to expire in 2016-17 on several cargo terminals.