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Secretary's bus tour stops in Ohio

14 April 2014

Today, we began our "Invest in America, Commit to the Future" Bus Tour.  Over the next 5 days, we'll visit 8 states.  In Ohio, we started in Columbus where the region and state are building an East-West Connector.  We later saw a great highway &...

Secretary's bus tour stops in Alabama

16 April 2014

Sweet Home Alabama!

We made three stops in Alabama today – Anniston where we missed Jennifer but found the NABI bus plant where they build electric & CNG buses for transit systems all over America.  Next, Birmingham, where we saw a new intermodal...

Secretary's bus tour stops in Georgia

16 April 2014

Atlanta!  Fast-growing Southern city with a visionary mayor.  We saw the Atlanta BeltLine, a project that is transforming the definition of beltways.  Today, it is a bike/ped trail following alongside the city's inner loop.  But they're preserving...

Secretary's bus tour stops in Tennessee

15 April 2014

When we talk about crumbling infrastructure, there are real examples all across America.  In Nashville, we saw bridges carrying 130,000 cars a day that are shedding concrete in clumps & threatening unsuspecting drivers underneath.  They've now got a plan...

Secretary's bus tour stops in Kentucky

15 April 2014

We stopped in Louisville this morning – 37 degrees & I had no coat!  But the backdrop of the Ohio River Bridge project, a $2+ billion investment is astounding.  DOT put in about $1 billion – and the project has been on the planning books...

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