Lawmakers seek federal money for local projects
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
President Joe Biden is slated to unveil a massive investment in infrastructure during a stop in Pittsburgh Wednesday.
Several Democratic state representatives from the Mon Valley are urging local U.S. congressmen, U.S. senators from Pennsylvania and the White House to use some of the money to invest in the Mon/Fayette Expressway and the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway.
“With President Biden’s arrival later this week to discuss infrastructure and local investments, I joined Rep. Austin Davis and several colleagues in urging him and Congress to invest in the region — specifically two projects that would have a lasting impact,” state Rep. Nick Pisciottano, D-West Mifflin, said Monday.
On Friday, Pisciottano, Reps. Summer Lee, D-Braddock, Brandon Markosek, D-Monroeville, and Davis, a McKeesport Democrat who sits on the Port Authority of Allegheny County board of directors, wrote a letter to the region’s congressional delegation in Washington D.C., asking them to consider two major infrastructure projects as they discuss building programs — the extension of the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway and the last leg of the Mon/Fayette Expressway.
“As we start to emerge from the pandemic, we need to talk about what comes next — and that includes investing in our nation’s infrastructure,” Davis said. “I agree with President Biden – and I urge him and members of Congress to look at several vital projects in the Mon Valley.”
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