The senior White House advisor tasked with overseeing the recently approved $1.2 trillion infrastructure package says there are immediate steps cities can take that could help them compete for grants federal agencies will award under the law. “You don’t have to wait,” Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, told members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday. For instance, he said city leaders should make sure proposed road and bridge projects are part of their regional planning organization’s transportation improvement plan. Additionally, he said, they could determine where they’d like to install electric vehicle chargers, map and inventory lead pipes that need to be replaced, and work with states to identify broadband gaps.
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