Transportation industry

Moody's Investors Service said it has revised the outlook on the Port of Seattle's outstanding revenue bonds to negative from stable.

Two state lawmakers from Staten Island want the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reconsider its decision to use 15,000 tons of steel fabricated in China for repairs to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Continuing financial obligations will make Pennsylvania Turnpike debt unsustainable and tolls crushing for motorists and businesses, according to the state's auditor general.

The Texas Department of Transportation would get an additional $900 million per year in bonding authority under a constitutional amendment unanimously approved by the Texas Senate in a special session.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the top issuer in the Southwest, is pricing $367 million of revenue bonds Thursday for its $2 billion terminal remodeling program.

St. Louis Metro transit enters the market next week with a $375 million issue under a long-planned restructuring and refunding that will introduce a new debt lien supported by revenues from a 2010 voter-approved sales tax.

The Court of Appeals in Kansas City will hear oral arguments next month as several Kansas City, Mo., business owners try to keep alive their lawsuit challenging the legality of the funding mechanism for the city's downtown streetcar line.

Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez is expected to join Kentucky officials Tuesday for groundbreaking of the 'downtown' Ohio River Bridges Project.

The Atlanta BeltLine Inc. has selected Paul Morris as its president and chief executive officer.

Seven-mayor panel in Arkansas awards $13.1 million in state street funds from $28 million requested.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the governance of the state's Transportation Infrastructure Bank.

Central Florida's Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority soon will search for a new chief financial officer following the resignation of Nita Crowder.

New Mexico will price $220 million of highly-rated severance tax bonds for hundreds of local projects in a competitive sale Tuesday.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has written Governor Andrew Cuomo requesting the re-appointment of Mitchell Pally as the Suffolk County representative to the board of New York's MTA.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority — the transit system that serves Greater Boston — is staring at a $118 million gap for fiscal 2014, which begins July 1.

Providence, R.I. Mayor Angel Taveras desires $39 million in federal TIGER grant money to help fund a streetcar project he called essential to the city's comeback.

The federal government has formally invited Chicago to apply for a $292 million loan to help finance its new $884 million intermodal facility at O'Hare International Airport.

The Highway Trust Fund will need an additional $85 billion in U.S. general fund transfers over the next six years just to keep the program operating despite recent events that have shown that current spending is not enough, a Department of Transportation official told a Senate Panel Thursday.

As the state of Florida works on its largest public-private partnership project, local governments hope a bill waiting for the governor's signature can expand the use of P3s.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Perry's proposal to issue 100-year bonds for major infrastructure could get a hearing in a special legislative session now open to transportation issues.