US lends $386m to first toll road in North Carolina history

The loan to the $1.2bn Triangle Expressway project is being extended under the government’s TIFIA credit programme. The remaining financing will include $271m of toll revenue bonds and $343m of ‘Build America Bonds’ authorised by the economic stimulus bill.

The first toll road project in the history North Carolina is on its way toward financial close after the US Department of Transportation approved a $386 million loan for the Triangle Expressway in the state’s populous Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region.

The 18.8-mile roadway, part of a larger, yet-to-be completed beltway around Raleigh, will receive the loan under the department’s Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) credit programme for such projects.