Pete Buttigieg: ‘Misguided’ Transportation Policies ‘Reinforce’ Racial Inequality

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Pete Buttigieg: ‘Misguided’ Transportation Policies ‘Reinforce’ Racial Inequality

Charlie Spiering 21 Jan 2021

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg promised to fight racial, economic, and environmental injustice during his Senate confirmation hearings for the Department of Transportation on Thursday.

“I also recognize that at their worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities in transportation can reinforce racial and economic inequality by dividing or isolating neighborhoods and undermining government’s basic role of empowering Americans to thrive,” Buttigieg said in his opening statement at the hearing. His remarks reflected a similar sentiment that he voiced in December when he was first nominated by Biden to join the administration.

Buttigieg cited his own efforts to launch a “smart streets” initiative in South Bend that “brought new life” into urban and underserved communities in the city as an example of good policy that should be imitated in the Biden administration.

“We got results by bringing people in, engaging stakeholders and residents, prioritizing limited funds effectively, and unlocking new resources to solve problems,” he said.

Buttigieg also defended Biden’s decision to kill the Keystone pipeline, despite ending thousands of American jobs.

“I believe that president’s climate vision will create more jobs on net,” he said.

He noted that the transportation sector was the biggest producer of greenhouse gases and said it was “imperative” to build infrastructure throughout the country to support electric vehicles.

“This is not only imperative in order for us to meet our climate goals and prevent the destruction of property and life but it’s also very important for industry,” he said.

American car companies, he explained, should move more quickly to the development of electric vehicles.

“American workers should be leading the way in producing for example electric vehicles in the most efficient vehicles on the road,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/21/pete-buttigieg-misguided-transportation-policies-reinforce-racial-inequality/

[Smokin Joe]

 

At some point, someone, somewhere, is actually going to have to move stuff. Not just click a mouse and have it transported on a unicorn spewing rainbows and fairy dust on the way.

[goatprairie]

Hopefully, once idiots like Bootyjunk and the fat man with the blond wig and dress open their pieholes, many Americans will see them for the charlatans they are.
I'm not optimistic.

[dfwgator]

"Everything we disagree with is racist!"

[LMAO]

Do average Americans consider our highway system racist?  The only thing Americans care about when it comes to the highway system is that they are plowed in the winter and are not full of potholes

[HoustonSam]

Do average Americans consider our highway system racist?  The only thing Americans care about when it comes to the highway system is that they are plowed in the winter and are not full of potholes

I guess we'll see Interstate signs saying "All White Men Right Lane Only," or maybe Federal Guidelines for commuter lane occupancy policies that one black rider is equivalent two hispanic or three white riders.

[Wingnut]

Buttboy's claim to fame is he loves the "roundabout" to control traffic.  More rear-enders.

[Hoodat]

Signs like this scream of racism.