Transportation industry

The bi-state transportation agency's new budget plan keeps it on track to tackle large-scale airport redevelopment projects.

The RTA, which oversees three big Chicago-area transit agencies, is among the organizations that wants the state government to pass a long-awaited capital bill.

Reps. Brian Mast and Bill Posey asked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao not to extend a Dec. 31 deadline to issue private activity bonds.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit will finance a 26-mile commuter rail line to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with a $908 million RRIF loan.

Moody's underscored the sense of uncertainty facing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by dropping its outlook to negative.

Applications doubled from 2017, growing to 851 from all 50 states and also U.S. territories.

The private passenger train project in Florida also faces new litigation from longtime adversary Indian River County.

“We have starved our state of a fundamental economic investment and job creator,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Hasan Ikhrato joins the San Diego Association of Governments, which has been without an executive director since Gary Gallegos stepped down amid scandal in 2017.

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority will bring about $430 million of refunding debt to market.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority board intends to vote on its $16.7 billion operating budget as outyear deficits and other challenges hover.

Fitch Ratings said the BB-minus rating on Brightline’s $600 million of private activity bonds was removed because the project has changed strategic focus.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces a plate of challenges as crowded as its trains at New York rush hour.

As U.S. airports crowd into the debt market to fund capital projects, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will increasingly turn to taxable bonds.

The $1.8 billion Chicago O’Hare Airport deal tops a $9 billion new issue calendar that will slake the thirst of a supply deprived municipal bond market this week.

Gov. Eric Holcomb's administration had been required to study the idea of more tolls under 2017 state legislation.

Florida agencies will negotiate with the private rail operator, currently known as Brightline, to build tracks for passenger service to Tampa.

Long Beach, California, is seeking a second TIFIA loan for its Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement.

Democratic control of the House of Representatives may lower the barrier to sustainable transportation funding, said Bond Buyer conference participants.

The Federal Transit Administration has not yet awarded $760 million of the $2.62 billion Congress set aside for transit grants in fiscal 2018 almost two months after the end of the budget year.