Transportation industry

Ohio legislature settled on a leaner gas tax increase to help fund fixes for its roads and bridges.

Owners of the privately owned passenger train project plan to ask the Florida Development Finance Corp. to approve more bonds Friday.

Rising passenger totals at Bradley International Airport prompted a bond sale to fund a consolidated car rental facility.

As Congress prepares work on an infrastructure package, the transportation secretary endorsed private funding through pensions and endowment funds.

Its $1.5 billion unrated deal will be sold to qualified institutional buyers to finance Florida’s privately owned passenger train project.

The first installment on a $650 million highway borrowing plan, including major projects in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, won easy approval Thursday from the State Bond Commission.

Atlanta officials are facing another potential challenge to how the city has conducted business at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, even as they try to tamp down a state push to take over the airport.

Plans call for four Metro-North Railroad stations along an underused rail line in the East Bronx, with an eye toward real-estate value capture.

Federal transportation officials authorized another $950 million in private activity bonds for Brightline, also known as Virgin Trains USA.

Bond Buyer northeast regional editor Paul Burton scopes out New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's resilience plan for Lower Manhattan. Andrew Coen hosts.

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Rebuild Alabama Act into law, increasing state gas taxes for the first time in 26 years.

A finding of sub-standard cement at Denver International Airport's $650 million terminal redevelopment project shows that the government and developer in a public-private partnership both must adapt to unforeseen events.

A bill moving through the state legislature would wrest the airport from the city's control and place it under a state authority.

The Florida Development Finance Corp. said another meeting will be scheduled to finish taking public comment on financing for the passenger train project.

Nick Sifuentes of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign weighs the multipronged mass-transit crisis in metropolitan New York. Paul Burton and Andrew Coen host.

A new Big Apple Transit agency would issue new debt for transit under City Council Speaker Corey Johnson's plan.

The city will use about $1.8 billion of bonds to fund a new airport terminal in a project led by private partner Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate.

FA Jeff Larson said the $2.7 billion in nonrated bonds are expected to price in late March.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is making an end run around the Trump administration and proposing a legislative solution to jump-start the Gateway project.

The new governor included the fuel tax in his budget plan, which would spend $83.4 billion over the next two-year budget cycle.