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A passenger boards a Mankato bus. Outstate bus systems could receive extra funding under a proposal by southern Minnesota lawmakers to dedicate part of the sales tax on vehicles to rural mass transit.
John Cross / The Free Press


Lawmakers push for outstate transit funding

Would dedicate part of vehicle sales tax to buses

Mark Fischenich
The Free Press

Mankato Public Works Director George Rosati, who oversees the city’s bus system, said transit funding will become an even more crucial issue as the population ages.

“The big deal for us is going to be this whole mobility transit,” Rosati said. “... Right now we have a far greater need than we can even remotely meet.”



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