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Pete Buttigieg: “There is transit, which is like, that was a lift, like…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:08:46

And I got there and I was like, this isn't the middle of a city with a million plus people in it. Like, this is a parking lot. Now if you go there, like There is transit, which is like, that was a lift, like culturally to get people in the Phoenix region to get into transit. There are places you can walk to. So again, it's not Manhattan, but they're showing that it can be done in a place like that. (1:08:46–1:08:52)

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Asserts that introducing transit in Phoenix required cultural adaptation.

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