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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Capitol capituation, from Marion County Record for March 30, 2022
Skip to main content In South Bend, Pete Buttigieg challenged a decades-old assumption that streets are for cars above all else Ian Duncan, The Washington Post Jan. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Main Street in South Bend after it was reconfigured.City of South Bend. For years, drivers in South Bend., Ind., held in their heads a magic number: Get their car to hit that speed and you could whip through downtown without seeing a red light. When Pete Buttigieg took office as mayor of the Indiana city in 2012, he changed that. He pitched a $25 million plan to convert downtown's wide, one-way roads...
Urban leaders see Buttigieg’s willingness to pursue so-called “complete streets” as a promising sign in the incoming transportation secretary.