PHOTOS: Buttigieg joins Bowser at new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: (L-R) Director of the District Department of Transportation Everett Lott, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser tour the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: (L-R) Director of the District Department of Transportation Everett Lott, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh tour the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: (L-R) Director of the District Department of Transportation Everett Lott, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser tour the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (C) leads Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (L) and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (R) on a tour of the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser attends a news conference after touring the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: (L-R) Director of the District Department of Transportation Everett Lott, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh tour the construction site atop the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. The nearly $500 million project to replace the old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is the largest public works project in District of Columbia history and employed more than 1300 workers at the height of construction. The bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2021. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)