Pete Buttigieg

Former U.S. DOT Director of Public Affairs Dani Simons, now of Alstom, on how Biden Administration policies evolved from ideas to bills such as the IIJA and Inflation reduction act.

Detroit won a $100-million federal grant to study replacing a highway with a boulevard. Some say the plan doesn't go far enough.

The federal government is going back to the future to help solve three problems: vacant office space, global warming and high housing costs.

A huge share of one of DOT's most important discretionary grant program's funds will go to communities that were historically harmed by transportation investments.

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Europe is so far ahead of us on this.

"The lesson here is, Secretary Pete is not going to come in and save the day," said one highway opponent. "And he probably isn’t capable of saving the day."

"We’ve got a get a handle on this as industry, and we've got to do it as soon as possible," one rail leader said.

In his January 20, 2023 speech to the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, DC, Secretary Pete (formerly Mayor Pete) focused primarily on what he called “maybe the most acute and devastating problem in our entire transportation system….We need to talk about roadway deaths in America.” Here are a few highlights from his address.