Transportation industry

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.

The Senate is expected to vote on whether to confirm Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx as Secretary of the Transportation Department during the next few weeks, but has not yet scheduled the vote, a congressional aide said Tuesday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that his agency received applications for $9 billion of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants, when only $474 million is available.

Chicago's motor fuel tax credit took its second ratings hit in a week with Moody's Investors Service dropping its rating one level to Baa1 over exposure to Illinois.

The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, on Monday named Sens. Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal to lead two subcommittees.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has agreed to let the state continue to implement electronic tolling equipment on the new Sakonnet River Bridge connecting Portsmouth and Tiverton.

Ontario, Calif. officials filed a lawsuit to have their regional airport returned to local control following a three-year battle with Los Angeles officials.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority's bond rating to A3 from A2 a day after Delta announced that the airport would no longer be a hub.

The Chicago City Council ratified revisions to the much-maligned 75-year parking meter lease that Mayor Rahm Emanuel promoted as cutting the city's long-term penalties for lost parking revenue to the private meter operators.

New York MTA's chief acknowledged that extensive work to fix two major subway tubes damaged by Hurricane Sandy would cost "hundreds of millions" of dollars.