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Another Make-or-Break BPW Vote for the Purple Line in January

Another month, another make-or-break vote for the Purple Line. At the upcoming meeting of the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), scheduled for 26 January, the BPW will decide whether or not to approve the Purple Line’s updated P3 agreement, which will include a new design-build contract.

Alabama I-10 Bridge Project Revived, P3 Still Dead

Alabama is the latest state to see a cancelled P3 showing signs of new life. Public officials approved a toll framework to revive the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project, just a few years after cancelling a P3 procurement to deliver the project post-qualifications.

MD OP Lanes Toll Rates Approved, SDEIS Comment Period Ends

The Maryland managed lanes project passed a few milestones in November. First, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Board approved toll rates for the state’s OP Lanes managed lanes project, advancing the project’s proposed economics after a long public comment period. The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDoT) also closed the comment period for its Supplemental Draft […]

Texas North Tarrant Express 3C, Delivered

The final phase of the North Tarrant Expressway concession, Segment 3C, officially opened for traffic on June 20th. The delivery completed roughly 14 years of managed lanes-funded development in the region. The North Tarrant Express system has already become a bit of an exemplar for other planned and developed express lanes systems in the United […]

The War for Pleasure Island: Alabama Bridge Gets Injunction

In infrastructure politics, battles over toll bridges are about as strange and dramatic as they get, and beautiful coastal Alabama has been the site of quite a battle over the last decade or so. It reached a crescendo in May, when Alabama Circuit Judge Jimmy B. Pool issued a preliminary injunction to block the construction […]

Infrastructure Development by Emergency Declaration

When the highway overpass on I-95 north of Philadelphia came down last month, it wasn’t due to the usual poor maintenance or political dysfunction that are often blamed for America’s crumbling infrastructure. A gasoline truck lost control and crashed into the underpass, and the ensuing fire brought the short bridge down. All of a sudden, […]

Shortlist for Virgin Islands Two‐Airport Concession

The Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) has announced a shortlist for a brownfield concession to operate the US territory’s two international airports, which will be leased via a single procurement.

Financial Close for Metropolitan Transit Agency ADA P3

The largest transit agency in the United States just reached financial close for its very first Public-Private Partnership. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) ADA Upgrades P3 will build or replace accessibility elevators at 13 different transit stations across New York, then maintain the facilities under a long-term DBFM concession.