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Pete Buttigieg: “We were able to start to change that by funding things like…”

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

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Pete Discusses Need for Major Structural Reform, Live from Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 44:24

If you don't have a car and you're in the city limits of Chicago, in the Roseland neighborhood, it takes an hour and a half or almost an hour and a half to get to work. But We were able to start to change that by funding things like the Red Line extension, investing in that infrastructure. neighborhoods, transit, and frankly, bringing dollars to a lot of places that had been left out, either systematically excluded or just overlooked. (44:24–44:31)

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Asserts that investments have been made in infrastructure projects like the Red Line extension to improve transit access.

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