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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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The usually circumspect Metra fired another salvo at the CTA recently, laying out its case in a special edition of its newsletter, On The Bi-Level (pdf). Meanwhile, Carole Brown shows how the collar counties are using transit dollars they aren't paying for. Despite both agencies talking about how everyone needs to work together to improve the RTA, that seems to have seriously fallen by the wayside.

 
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