Transportation

RSS

DOT Secretary says detailed legislative proposal should be out in third quarter of 2017.

The Illinois Tollway board this month approved a $4-billion, 22-mile expansion and rehabilitation of a stretch of Interstate 294 called the Central Tri-State Tollway—more than double the original scope of $1.8 billion.

Overriding a gubernatorial veto, the South Carolina Legislature has enacted the state’s first gas-tax increase in 30 years.

Maryland has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to force a ruling in a long-running environmental lawsuit that has stalled the start of construction on the Purple Line light-rail project for nearly nine months.

Project opposed by Republicans would get $100 million in proposed budget

Legislation increases highway, mass transit funding to FAST Act levels.