Buttigieg Pays Visit To Dubuque

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and City of Dubuque officials on Thursday walked the footprint of a proposed project for a railroad overpass and other street improvements being designed with a $2.28 million federal grant. The grant to the city for the project’s design came from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program, for which the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided $1.5 billion in funding this year. Buttigieg’s stop in Dubuque was part of a tour through Wisconsin and Iowa promoting projects tied to the major federal infrastructure investment. The centerpiece of the city’s proposal is a bridge at 14th Street over an at-grade railroad crossing, which officials said both would improve safety and connect low-income neighborhoods to good jobs on the other side of the tracks. Buttigieg told the officials that he hears concerns about increasing trains and at-grade railroad crossings everywhere they go.