U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined Mayor Adler, Austin's political A-listers, and a big SXSW crowd to talk about the infrastructure bill, the future of mobility, and our city's investments in that future.
. Along the way, he got a rather choreographed bit of face time with leaders and invited guests from Cap Metro, the, the local minority chambers of commerce, and more, including Buttigieg's Secret Service detail, which numbered at least six, and a bunch of journalists held at bay by the same security). For the latter half of the 10 minutes or so on the train, that face time was skillfully commandeered by members of the Project Connect, talking about how to make the $7.
At Plaza Saltillo, which was built back in 1994 with a $600,000 federal grant, Buttigieg and Adler touted the much larger sums currently being invested in Austin mobility, even before the city gets whatever cash falls from the bipartisanI-35 rebuild, and the more than $1.5 billion in city mobility bonds passed since Adler took office in 2015, including thethat passed alongside the Project Connect tax rate vote.
An hour later, many of the same folks were in the dark cool cavern of Ballroom D as Buttigieg flew solo on stage at what was billed as a town hall on the IIJA, which everyone still calls the"," in his official capacity as the man with that $1.2 trillion package.
Many who are still hanging in on Day 6 of SXSW to follow its transportation track are experts themselves, and a couple of times - particularly on specific technologies - Buttigieg had to admit his limitations. But for a man whose 2020 presidential campaign was criticized for being long on identity-driven charm and short on specifics, it was a pretty impressive show of mastery of his multivariate portfolio.
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