Transportation
Pete Buttigieg Stresses a ‘Fix It First’ Infrastructure Policy
“A lot of what we've got to do is dealing with a maintenance backlog,” the U.S. Transportation Secretary said.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is emphasizing a less-than-flashy item as a top priority for his national agenda: Fixing the country’s “maintenance backlog.”
“‘Fix it first,’ I think, is going to be a very important mantra for us,” he said in an interview at CityLab 2021, a virtual summit for urban leaders hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute. “It doesn't always have the same sizzle as adding something new, but the truth is we’ve got to be doing both.”