Buttigieg attends groundbreaking for Woonasquatucket River Greenway project

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — While Secretary Buttigieg started his day looking at the Washington Bridge, he then headed over to Farm Fresh Rhode Island for a groundbreaking ceremony of the Woonasquatucket River Greenway project.  

Buttigeig was joined by many other officials to deliver the news of the greenway project.  

The project consists of a one-mile stretch of the Woonasquatucket River, and aims to revitalize the city urban landscape and create access to recreational and transportation resources in Rhode Island.   

The project spans from downtown Providence behind the Providence Place Mall, to Eagle Square in Olneyville, and will establish an off-road, shared-use path.   

Buttigieg explained the greenway project is a product of an example of what it is like to live in America’s infrastructure decade.  

“We are really excited how this is going to add up to be a safe path for people to walk, or bike, or roll, spared from vehicle traffic. Safety is especially important here,” said Buttigieg.

“When we talk about greenways, acts of transportations, good safe protected means of getting around when you are not in a car; it’s not ornamental, it is fundamental. Life and death difference is made by the safety of these ways to get around, but they have to be connected.”  

Buttigieg’s next stop on his Rhode Island visit will be to meet with workers to hear how the bipartisan infrastructure law is increasing job opportunity for workers and apprentices across the Ocean State.  

The bipartisan infrastructure law, as enacted in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, authorizes up to $108 billion for public transportation, the largest federal investment in public transportation in the nation’s history.