Get on a bus, gus: The nation is heading towards a transit crisis

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Despite the eight billion dollars the stimulus will pump into the nation’s transit infrastructure, local transportation agencies around the nation are in for a potentially devastating year. For the details of this looming crisis we turn to Rick Karr, a correspondent for Blueprint America at PBS.

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