Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pete Buttigieg

What’s In the Groundbreaking New USDOT Safety Strategy — and What’s Missing

By Kea Wilson | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments

For the first time in history, the United States Department of Transportation has committed to using every available resource to end roadway deaths and serious injuries on American roads — and now, they face the critical challenge of getting the rest of America to buy in with them.

Year In Review 2021: Now For the Good News

By Streetsblog | Dec 24, 2021 | No Comments

This year was not a good one for big wins. But it may go down in history as a critical turning point for our national transportation future.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, center, takes a tour of Richmond’s Jackson Ward Neighborhood, accompanied by Mayor Levar Stoney (right) and Maritza Mercado Pechin, (left) a city planning official. Image courtesy Wyatt Gordon for the Virginia Mercury)

Could Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Help Heal the Scars Highways Created?

By Wyatt Gordon | Dec 13, 2021 | No Comments

From the interstate highway system to public housing, some of America’s most discriminatory and damaging policies have been implemented under the auspices of the need for better infrastructure. A recent visit from Sec. Buttigieg highlighted what the USDOT hopes to do to reverse the harm.

Advocates Praise 'Inspired' RAISE Grantee List

By Kea Wilson | Nov 23, 2021 | No Comments

Last Friday, the U.S. DOT wowed sustainable transportation advocates with its list of grantees for the RAISE discretionary grant program, which will funnel $1 billion dollars into transportation capital and planning projects across America — and stoked optimism for how the agency would spend the historic $100 billion in discretionary funding it just won with the passage of the latest infrastructure bill.

USDOT Promises Change As Death Toll Rises

By Kea Wilson | Nov 1, 2021 | No Comments

The Department of Transportation is promising radical new changes to federal approach to roadway safety following a report that showed the largest six-month increase in roadway fatalities ever recorded by the agency.

Kansas City, Mo. clears the way for a freeway, 1957. Source: Source: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

Highway Removal Basically Axed from Bipartisan Deal

By Kea Wilson | Aug 2, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates are rallying to restore funding for a visionary highway removal program that was all but entirely removed during the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations.

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