Greater Minnesota watches transportation funding debate

ST. PAUL -- Greater Minnesota has lots at stake in a legislative transportation funding debate.

Senate Democrats said Monday that it is not just about roads and bridges. They said that rural transit also needs more money.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, D-Cook, said that last fall he moved his mother into a senior citizen apartment and quickly discovered there is no van or bus service to the regional center of Virginia.

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