Federal dollars speed up work on safe streets, but money isn’t the only roadblock
NPRFederal dollars speed up work on safe streets, but money isn’t the only roadblock toggle caption Suzette Wenger/LNP/LancasterOnline LANCASTER, Pa. — The streets of this Colonial-era city are old and narrow, with blocks of 19th century brick rowhouses sitting just feet from the sidewalk. “It's definitely slowed traffic,” Sorace said last month as she led a walking tour for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to show off the changes the city is making. “They've taken all of our parking places away.” Sponsor Message Smithgall is a vocal opponent of the city’s new bike lanes. “It’s about saving lives,” said Becky Daggett, the mayor of Flagstaff, Ariz., one of about a dozen city leaders who gathered during a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. But I'm very mindful that you’re investing political capital,” Buttigieg told the mayors gathered in D.C. “And saving lives and tackling a crisis that claims as many American lives as gun violence is a really good use of that political capital.” The federal government can put up the money.
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American roads are dangerous. State oversight stifles safety intervention.
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