RALEIGH, N.C. — A massive $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law Monday by President Joe Biden is expected to impact the Triangle and beyond.
What You Need To Know
- President Joe Biden just signed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law
- Director of WAKE UP Wake County Nathan Spencer says "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity"
- Spencer says it's just as important to focus our money on the people power just as much as the infrastructure power
The President says the bill will grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. Billions of dollars will go to upgrading our roads and bridges, public transportation and clean energy.
Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement on the signing, saying it “will help ensure we emerge from this pandemic stronger than ever before.”
In the Triangle, Nathan Spencer has been fighting for clean infrastructure for years. He’s the executive director of WAKE UP Wake County, a 15-year-old nonprofit working to get better transportation, land use and housing in a clean way.
“I don't say this lightly. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Spencer said about the signing.
“We are different in the fact that the pandemic may have slowed progress in some cases, but were moving very fast forward. Where as a lot of large cities are still at a standstill, and still having trouble growing, construction is still taking time, projects are on hold all over the place. But here, we're moving forward because we know were expecting thousands of more people in the next decade," Spencer said.
