Transportation industry

DALLAS — Tulsa, Okla., Mayor Kathy Taylor has proposed a 12-year, $2 billion program to improve city streets to a satisfactory condition, including a plan to widen five streets from two lanes to four.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Miami-Dade County tomorrow is set to price $271.6 million of transit system sales-tax revenue bonds, which is shaping up to be the largest scheduled competitive sale of the week on The Bond Buyer's calendar.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Mississippi Department of Transportation is seeking prospective concessionaires to enter into the state's first public-private partnership to build a new toll road estimated to cost as much as $500 million.

WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined three other mayors of metropolitan cities at a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday to push for more federal funding for transportation infrastructure, warning that state and local governments can no longer shoulder the costs alone.

SAN FRANCISCO - A $5 billion bond measure that was financed by a T. Boone Pickens-owned firm has qualified for the California ballot in November.

New York Gov. David Paterson yesterday appointed 12 members to a blue ribbon commission to study the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's funding problems.

DALLAS - Major trends are influencing Dallas Area Rapid Transit's $740 million revenue bond deal this week.

BRADENTON, Fla. - The Florida Department of Transportation last week released the names of eight firms interested in the state's first-ever lease of an existing toll road.

DALLAS - The Texas Transportation Commission, one of the state's largest debt issuers, should be eliminated and replaced with a single commissioner who would report to a legislative oversight committee, according to recommendations from the state Sunset Advisory Commission.

DALLAS - Dallas Area Rapid Transit's upcoming $740 million sales tax revenue bond sale is getting decidedly mixed reviews, with one upgrade, one downgrade, and one agency maintaining the status quo.