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Pete Buttigieg: “Hundreds of thousands of people a day go through this…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 17:40

… more than 100 years old in New York, New Jersey, the Hudson Tunnels, they're 110 years old. They were damaged by Superstorm Sandy. That was more than a decade ago. Hundreds of thousands of people a day go through this tunnel. It needs to be done like yesterday. And now it's getting stopped because of political bullshit. Really when that happens every time that happens every time that even might happen, it adds to the uncertainty. (17:40–17:44)

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Asserts that hundreds of thousands of people use the Hudson Tunnels daily.

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