Fed transportation bill presents dilemma for locals

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A bill before Congress that transit advocates are battling could restore key federal transit benefits that they fought for just months ago.

It’s an interesting dilemma: will individual transit riders score one for their pocketbooks, while the systems they ride take a hit? The impact could be especially big locally where more than 250,000 riders rely on the SmartBenefits program that delivers the transit benefits for Metro.

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