Pete Buttigieg Joins Mikie Sherrill At Community College of Morris

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be in Morris County today to talk about the Biden Administration's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Buttigieg will accompany Rep. Mikie Sherrill on a tour of the County College of Morris Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Center, as well as participate in a forum with students and faculty about workforce development and infrastructure investments.

The visit comes shortly after the Biden Administration and the US Department of Transportation marked the six-month anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

USDOT has already made significant progress in deploying BIL funding to support transportation-related projects in New Jersey in such a short time. As of early May, the Department and Administration had announced $3.4 billion in infrastructure funding for the state, with more than 83 percent going to transportation-related projects.

Buttigieg is also scheduled to visit the Port of Newark, where he will accompany a truck driver on a ride-along tour of a road connecting the Port of Newark and the Port of New York that will benefit from needed improvements thanks in part to a $44 million INFRA Grant from USDOT.

Tomorrow, Buttigieg will join Rep. Andy Kim to visit an upcoming intersection improvement project along State Route 206 in the Monmouth Road and Juliustown Road Intersection area in Burlington County.

Over the next five years, New Jersey, which has 502 bridges and over 3,995 miles of highway in poor condition, is expected to receive:

• $8.1 billion for roads and bridges
• $4.5 billion to improve public transportation
• $272 million to improve airport infrastructure
• $104 million for EV chargers