Transportation industry

As surface transportation funding is set to expire later in 2020, a new reauthorization could help push muni bond initiatives next year.

The U.S. Department of Transportation reasonably determined the Florida’s passenger train owners were qualified to receive private activity bond financing.

Members of a bipartisan panel appear to agree in principle on a long-term proposal to narrow the state's annual highway funding gap by using more state revenue, adding taxes and fees and lowering annual bonding for transportation.

The Bond Buyer's Paul Burton and Andrew Coen dissect Northeast regional transportation, including the stalled Gateway tunnel project, New York MTA, NJTransit, Penn Station and Connecticut's tolling debate.

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority will sell the debt to fund 600 buses and 17 trains.

Forecasters predict the Washington D.C. area population will grow by more than a million people by 2045.

Ron DeSantis appointed new Florida Development Finance Corp. board members; a bill has been introduced to place the issuer under the auspices of another state agency.

The Florida Department of Transportation was ordered to raise toll rates on the Garcon Point Bridge for the first time in eight years.

Michigan lawmakers are weighing bonds as an option for regional transit in the Detroit area.

More than 50 groups and businesses formed the ‘No Roads to Ruin Coalition’ to begin a statewide campaign opposing the three highways.

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority prices $807.7 million in subordinate bonds Thursday for the capital plan.

Debbie Mayfield cites an increasing number of fatalities where Virgin Trains operates between Miami and West Palm Beach.

A bus line in Flagstaff received $17.3 million in grants to relocate its connection center and buy zero emission buses.

Sound Transit says it can continue to collect taxes approved by its own voters in 2016 until bonds it backs are repaid.

Proposition CC, which would have repealed the revenue cap built into Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights, promised to help fund three of the state's most notably underfunded buckets: K-12 education, higher education and transportation infrastructure.

The repeal will help states and cities move forward with bonding and future projects, especially as spring construction season is around the corner.

Carmen Taveras is the agency's first chief of real estate, economic development, and transit-oriented development

Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority board meetings and procurements are on hold as it fights a state law to abolish the authority.

The question of how to pay for the governor's $21 billion, 10-year transportation bill points to the political third rail of highway tolls.

P3 players are turning to smaller projects and taking on more partners, industry insiders told a Bond Buyer conference.