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Headed to its next $6B phase, Second Ave. Subway faces mega-funding challenges

Permanent floating bridges are essentially boutique structures that only make sense for certain rare kinds of sites: unusually deep bodies of water and/or bodies of water with very soft bottoms, where piers are impractical.

A shrinking budget deficit is usually good news, but a drop in federal debt in Canada is raising concerns over delays in government efforts to funnel infrastructure money into projects.

Plan calls for $200B in direct spending, aiming to spur more than $1T in state, local and private matching funds.

How a contract clause threw an important Minneapolis transportation project into turmoil.

According to several sources close to the project, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Building Co. has been chosen as general contractor for the 22-million-sq-ft, $10-billion flat-screen-panel manufacturing campus to be built by Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. Gilbane.

The cold weather that swept across the Eastern Seaboard in early January is heating up the debate over the need for a more robust infrastructure to deliver natural gas to New England. 

Industry officials welcome State of the Union pro-infrastructure comments, but say funding still isn't clear.