Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh spent the day in Buffalo Monday, focusing on the impact of the recently adopted infrastructure law.
Walsh began his day touring the Northland Workforce Training Center in Buffalo before touring parts of Buffalo and then breaking ground at the NFTA's Cold Spring Bus Garage where the transit agency will develop and support state-of-the-art battery-electric buses.
The $8 million upgrade will culminate with the opening of the facility in Spring 2022 when the NFTA takes delivery of its first twenty electric powered buses.
On the overall $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation, Walsh says, "It needs to be just a start, we need to stay ahead of it, we need to keep investing in it."
Walsh was preceded in his remarks by lengthy list of Democratic elected officials in the Western New York region, including Rep. Brian Higgins, Mayor Byron Brown, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and representatives of New York State government.
"This investment....is going to pave the way for a more state-of-the-art battery-electric buses that we're going to have here in this city, and quite honestly, all across the United States of America."
