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  • In South Bend, Pete Buttigieg challenged a decades-old assumption that streets are for cars above all else

    Ian Duncan

    January 16, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, South Bend, Indiana

    Reconfiguring streets to slow automobile traffic through its downtown business district and encourage pedestrians and bicycling enlivened South Bend's street life and proved a boon to its restaurants and other businesses. Then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg pushed for the $25 million plan to make the streets safer and encourage people to spend more time and money in the area. Drivers complained about increased travel time, as they have about other cities’ “complete streets” programs. But Buttigieg and his supporters hope to push the concept when he runs the federal Transportation Department.

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