Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Trying To Expedite Money For Local Bridge Repairs After Collapse
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge was "a blunt reminder."
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge was "a blunt reminder."
At a time of unprecedented public concern about the condition of our bridges, it's a sight to give pause: thin wooden posts under each corner of the South Negley Avenue Bridge, which at least to the untrained eye, appear to be supporting the aging and rusted span above.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has ordered structural reviews of five other bridges with similar construction to the Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed Friday.
For the past decade, you've been paying the third-highest gas tax in the nation at the pump -- money that was intended to fix our bridges and our roads. Only that's not where it went.
Mayor Ed Gainey and city Councilman Corey O'Connor are calling for the formation of a task force that will identify the local infrastructure most in need of attention and repair.
The collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge has raised a lot of questions.
Help is here at Fern Hollow Bridge and more could be on the way Saturday.
President Joe Biden has landed in West Mifflin, and KDKA has confirmed he's coming straight to the site of the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood.
President Joe Biden will visit Pittsburgh Friday.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in Philadelphia on Friday to announce a new bridge repair program.
With the bipartisan infrastructure bill now law, Pennsylvania is set to receive $18 billion of the money.
Pennsylvania is going to get billions of dollars under President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal that Congress approved last Friday.
It's the biggest public works project in the history of the region: $2.5 billion in construction aimed at cleaning up our rivers and streams.
As Congress debates an infrastructure plan, what would its passage mean for the Pittsburgh area?
Congressional Democrats continue to debate how much to spend on President Joe Biden's human infrastructure bill.
The City of Pittsburgh released a transportation plan for the next 50 years, and it includes several ambitious projects like gondolas and rapid direct transit to the airport.
The Senate has voted to take up consideration of a bipartisan multi-billion dollar infrastructure bill endorsed by President Biden.
A transportation funding commission is preparing to recommend how to raise billions more dollars in Pennsylvania for a 21st-century highway system, a report that will land at a politically touchy time and is expected to kick off a debate that could last years.
After a report came out saying Pennsylvania's roads and bridges rank towards the bottom of the country, we got some answers.
Details still need to be worked out, but a potential bipartisan plan on infrastructure has been reached by senators in Washington D.C.
United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is in Pittsburgh today.
As Senator Manchin pushed for a slimmed-down infrastructure bill, he says he's not a roadblock to President Biden's agenda.
Even as President Biden signaled he was open to compromise over the American Jobs Plan, Republicans continue to state their opposition.
President Joe Biden wants Congress to know he's sincere about cutting a deal on infrastructure, but Republican lawmakers have deep-seated doubts about the scope of his proposed package, its tax hikes and Biden's premise that this is an inflection point for the U.S. as a world power.
President Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure plan during a visit to the Pittsburgh area this afternoon.
