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View submission: Improving walkability cost me an election
When I visited South Bend a few years ago, people were mad at Mayor Pete for putting so many roundabouts because they made it "take forever" to get across town.
Maumee Ohio did a lot of traffic calming, but now they're facing an unrelated cost for storm water overflows, and everyone is mad.
Comment by manchesterisbell at 12/11/2024 at 17:46 UTC
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Interesting. We are facing the same issue (Combined Sewer Overflow), which has resulted in an $80 million sewer plant upgrade. But that was going on well before 2021. IMO, the downtown project played a much larger role in the election. Likely due to the fact that most of it happened this year.