‘A generational undertaking.’ Buttigieg marks $1 billion rail project

Three days after the Biden administration announced $8.2 billion in grants for passenger rail projects across the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came to Raleigh on Monday to highlight one of the biggest. The N.C. Department of Transportation will get nearly $1.1 billion to build the first leg of a high-speed rail line that will eventually connect Raleigh with Richmond, Virginia. The grant will allow the state to build new tracks, bridges and stations in Wake County and extend Amtrak’s Piedmont service to Wake Forest. Speaking to a gathering of more than 250 people in Ral...