Transportation industry

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota announced four options for fare and toll increases that he says are needed to help fill a budget gap.

With successful public-private partnerships under its belt, and more underway, Puerto Rico is leading the way in a market that has been slow to catch on in the United States.

The Los Angeles City Council voted to approve negotiations with Ontario, Calif. officials that could result in L.A./Ontario airport being returned to local control.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is selling New York City bus and subway transit MetroCards with front-facing ads for the first time.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission sold bridge system revenue refunding bonds after receiving positive outlooks from Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority administrator Beverly Scott will become the new general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Slide show of Puerto Rico Public Private Partnerships P3s

Roger Nutt will resign as chief executive of the embattled Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which the state auditor said was "drowning in debt."

The Citizens Budget Commission watchdog group, calling the financing arrangements of New York's MTA "volatile and insufficient," proposes an alternative that it said would curb deficits.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority hired Keith T. Parker away from the VIA transit agency in San Antonio to be its new general manager and CEO.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will complete nearly $1 billion of refinancing for 2012 with a $301 million deal scheduled to price next week.

Ohio is selling GO bonds this week and Garvee bonds in November. Ohio says the Garvee deal will proceed despite uncertainty over federal transportation funding and the fiscal cliff.

Transportation and infrastructure policy has taken a back seat throughout the presidential campaign so far, a fact that industry insiders think is an intentional dodge of the daunting challenge of funding new investment.

Denver plans to price $700 million of revenue bonds Wednesday to build an airport hotel that will adjoin a commuter rail line linking passengers to downtown's Union Station.

Gov. John Kasich Thursday told local reporters that he expects to unveil a privatization plan for the Ohio Turnpike within the next 30 days, and hopes to leverage at least $1 billion for the state.

The Austin, Texas City Council is considering bond projects worth about $189 million to accommodate the growing passenger traffic at Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

New York's MTA has strengthened its financial condition over the past two years, but still faces continued challenges, said state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

A group of high-profile Detroit-area supporters from the business and political communities urged lawmakers last week to advance a bill that would create a regional transit authority.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Corr V. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, a lawsuit that strikes at MWAA's primary mechanism of repaying more than $2 billion of bond debt.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the release of $121 million for the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield rail program.