U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s No. 1 mission in Mobile on Tuesday was to talk trains, but that wasn’t the only local transportation priority on his mind.
While he was celebrating the soon-to-be-built Amtrak stop in downtown Mobile, Buttigieg offered a full-throated endorsement of the proposal for a bridge over the Mobile River connected to a new bayway.his department awarded the projected over the summer.
That $550 million grant comes from the federal Bridge Investment Program announced in July. It comes on top a $125 million grant from a different federal program awarded in 2019.
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