“We saw a literal gash in a neighborhood,” Buttigieg said during an Oakland bus tour.
Standing in a crowded Oakland bus perched on the Interstate 980 overpass on Friday, Pete Buttigieg gazed out at a strip of highway that used to be home to hundreds of mostly Black and working-class people. In the 1970s the highway’s construction forced a vibrant community to uproot itself and created a gash that to this day“Literally where we are right now would be houses,” Buttigieg, the U.S.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 9: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, front left, and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee cross Broadway and Second Street to meet Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for a bus tour in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The bus tour was part of a City of Oakland project supported by a $14.5 million RAISE grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Buttigieg’s trip to Oakland on Friday and San Francisco the day before is part of a nationwide media blitz as the former Democratic presidential candidate turned Cabinet member promotes Biden’s infrastructure bill, which was signed into law last year.
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