The Northampton County, Pa., General Purpose Authority and Kriger Construction Inc. recently entered into a public-private partnership that is believed to be one of the first P3 transportation infrastructure projects nationwide to be spearheaded by county officials.

Construction industry officials hungering for details about President-elect Donald Trump’s $1-trillion infrastructure proposal have gleaned some hints about the plan from Elaine Chao, Trump’s nominee to lead the Dept. of Transportation.

Squeezed between two states with different geologies and between above-and-below clearance limits due to marine and air traffic, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge, which spans Staten Island’s Arthur Kill strait, represents the agency’s first use of a public-private partnership on a bridge project.